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Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by ProfessorBashington@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Discord was already succumbing to enshitification. Now with their intention to be owned by Wall Street, that trajectory will certainly accelerate at warp speed once the change of hands happens.

Anyone already get ahead of this and find a solid alternative?

Right now I'm on the fence between Element for Matrix, and Revolt. Both seem to have their pros and cons and I can't find a clear "winner".

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[–] assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm running a Matrix server with a FB Messenger bridge via mautrix-meta and that makes it a clear winner. Half my group chats have migrated entirely since I've set my close friends up with accounts in my server and they also use the bridge. The fact that people can slowly migrate chats without losing messages or groups is killer for adoption imo.

[–] johntash@eviltoast.org 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Are you saying you can import chat history with a bridge some how? I don't remember that being an issue, but would be very handy

[–] assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

I'm messaging Facebook users over Matrix via the bridge.

[–] ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Did you follow a guide, or know one you could link? I'm thinking this is the path for me and my friends too.

[–] assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago

I can try to write some stuff up, it's not super complex. Core requirement for my setup is Docker + a domain. I recommend Linux host but you can make Docker Desktop work.

Let me write some stuff down this week.

[–] Lumun@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

This sounds great. If you end up writing something for the other commenter using a Linux server and the Messenger bridge I would love to hear if there were any pitfalls to avoid!