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Does Anyone Host a Discord Alternative? Like a Matrix/Synapse Server? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As r/selfhosted seems to have shutdown due to the reddit api changes (rip), I wanted to see if anyone has worked with these services before?

How do they compare to Discord and how hard is it to maintain, as the setup looks pretty in depth for matrix and synapse. How did you convince your user base to use it over Discord.

I've hosted TS3 for about 8 years and are looking for alternatives, as we have to use Discord for screen sharing.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had a private Matrix server for me and a few family members for years now. It doesn't federate, and I'm afraid to try, because I run it on a potato computer and I've heard horror stories of Synapse federation consuming hundreds of gigabytes of space.

It's generally been stable and performant and really nice to use. The only problem is encryption: Element seems to forget keys sometimes and need to resync. And Matrix's whole e2ee system is arcane nonsense to anyone who's not extremely technical. Every time that happens, it's a long tech support call.

The solution is to just not use encryption on chatrooms, which is fine, but DMs have to be encrypted so it still comes up sometimes.

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

So long as your users are not in a bunch of media heavy rooms, the storage usage is not bad When federated. I've got mine on a 2 core, 4GB VPS with 80GB of storage. 6 users, 2 active. I've been sitting at about 40% storage used for the last year. Just make sure you've set reasonable retention policies.