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I spend alot of time on Discord on multiple servers. With this outage, I couldn't access any of the servers I'm involved in, which gives me some time to look at open source self hosted alternatives:

https://revolt.chat/ - very similar to discord

https://rocket.chat/ - more similar to slack than discord

https://fosscord.com/ - feels a bit incomplete, I had a hard time using their fosscord instance

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Also check out Sqwok an alternative that's a sort of hybrid HN/Discord.

https://sqwok.im/p/SJab4125ejWHMg

edit: This is a site I'm developing that's meant to be be a place for topical conversation about anything interesting. The main site is of course https://sqwok.im, feel free to ask me any questions about it, thanks.

I have to say, as someone that clicked this link that I found a few things you might want to consider before plugging again:

1. No disclaimer that you are involved with the site 2. Maybe talk about something other than furries in the room that you link 3. Maybe link to a landing page with more info on how to...do anything other than talk about furries?

Just my 2¢.

I should have stated that! The conversations can tend to flow in abstract ways, but that's how chat sort of works? The general rule is that it's Ok so long as it comes back on topic, with the option to just create a new post. Will be adding an easier way to do that soon.

lmk if you have any questions

You seem very dedicated to advertising your website, I'll give you that.

bootstrapping a new social project is both new and challenging... had some slow down but appreciate the folks who've been supporting it so far

Mumble+IRC still gives me the warm-and-fuzzies.

You could try Matrix/Element

Chiming in with Zulip.

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