Matrix? It's also quite close and federated as well.
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There's Revolt that seems to be very similar to Discord. They even have instructions to self host on their github repo. Don't know if this matters, but as of right now it is not federated.
Since you mention you have Nextcloud, it's worth knowing that Nextcloud embeds Spreed which gives you chat, audio, video, screensharing and a ton of other features. The trick with stuff like that is getting people to sign up, but limiting it to only people you want to chat with. The one thing that's valuable about internet-facing stuff like Discord is that anyone can sign up and it's not your problem. With Nextcloud, you can often federate and let people sign in with Google or Github or Facebook or whatever, but—as an individual—you probably don't want to have truly open signups on a personal chat server. So you'll have to sorta invite/accept people signing up. Matrix (already mentioned) is the other good contender.
I didn't realize that Nextcloud had all the extra stuff with it. I've just been wanting something other than iCloud. I'll have to check it out, but it's looking like Matrix is going to be the one
I'd try matrix apps like element or wait for spacebar (formerly fosscord), no much alternatives available unfortunately.
matrix seems to work fine.
kinda, but it lacks some features that makes discord better fit for a some cases.
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Been checking out open-source alternative Revolt, which is very similar to Discord but currently very bare bones, biggest feature missing is screen share.
Possibly Rocketchat
Linen (https://linen.dev) can sync Discord chat, it doesn't have voice or video capabilities though but at least backs up the important content.
The worst part about Discord is how nothing is indexed by search engines, so when you need help with something your only option is to join a Discord server and ask for help, or use the crappy search functionality.
I’ve seen Linen before, but haven’t found a community that actually uses it. It would be great to see it (or a similar alternative) take off in the software development world, where this type of thing is probably most impactful.
Edit: for a casual or private chat room, Matrix is probably better though
Matrix is probably the best solution. There is a bridge feature that allows you to merge a Matrix room with a Discord channel to the members can tack to each other. This allows for a smooth transition of communities away from Discord.
This is gonna be the one! Looks like Element has a similar enough UI, and one that won't scare away family from using it
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Federation seems to be falling over all over the threadiverse.
It looks like lemmy.ml is down, that might be why we're only interacting with it locally
i'm interacting with it and i'm on sopuli.xyz! :P