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Spacebar is a free, opensource selfhostable discord-compatible chat, voice and video platform.

  • Discord-compatible (Use all your custom clients/bots with minimal changes)
  • Selfhostable (Server)
  • Open Source (GitHub Organization)
  • Configurable (Configure every aspect and limits to your needs)
  • Decentralized (no abuse of power and doesn't have a single point of failure)
  • Extendable (secure and cross-platform plugin system)
  • Themeable (cross-platform theme system with design editor)
  • Secure (publicly audited and hosted FOSS software for transparent foundation in terms of security)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd look over the server install if the process had docs.

[–] Jozzo 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

In 5 steps it violates ISO27002 3 times.

I'd say any setup result is purely accidental on the way to something far more exciting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

what about the screen sharing? muble for voice, matrix for communication but i cant find any suitable replacement for video

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is cool to see, though I am sceptical, if it is a good idea to create a drop-in discord server, because this does not allow for the project to add E2EE "easily" without eliminating the drop-in capability.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's a convenience over privacy thing. If the api is discord compatible you lose the e2e on that channel / server, or make the api e2e but then existing bots need modifying

I could see this being a toggle

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That would require a custom client and eliminate the drop in feature. Sadly just adding a toggle does not work :/

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

is it… of value having something like this while matrix and element is a thing? i find these things interesting, but not sure if they are justifyable to deploy…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For me, the benefit of discord is not the text chat but the voice aspect. With push to talk/voice activated transmission and low latency for gaming.

The voice features of matrix are more of a conference call thing.

Until this gets implemented in matrix (not sure if ever) I'll continue hosting mumble (or TeamSpeak)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

interesting... but i understand the appeal of quickly jumping into a voice room. other than that, of course not as fancy of a ux experience, mumble would be quite suitable here... .

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