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📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform - spacebarchat/spacebarchat

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)
@warmaster@lemmy.world
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https://docs.spacebar.chat/faq/

Currently there is no voice or video support in any Spacebar instance. This is a very difficult feature to get working, especially given that we must implement it the exact same way as Discord.com for client compatibility. We would be incredibly thankful for any assistance.

Damn.

Yeah I’d love to move my gang off discord but getting them to go back to team speak or vent is not happening

@Serinus@lemmy.world
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Mumble is another strong, open source, self-hosted option.

@Kuinox@lemmy.world
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If only it didn’t looked like a 20 year old software.

@yetiftw@lemmy.world
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oh no!! good thing that doesn’t impact anything

@v0rld@lemmy.world
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Maybe it’s just me but I think the Mumble UI is way better than the Discord UI

@Kuinox@lemmy.world
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I don’t know about the UX, but if you want peoples to use your app, it need to look nice.

I find the login page of discord intelorable, it has ugly EULA on it that I will never sign

@Serinus@lemmy.world
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Especially on mobile.

It’s voice chat, you choose a server and then minimize to tray, you never have to look at it…

@Saff@lemmy.ml
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Same, if only teamspeak supported screen sharing / streaming, then it would be fine.

Just use sunshine moonlight for screenshare, it beats literally everything else, it’s not even close, you can play games through it, it’s just that good.

@gccalvin@lemmy.world
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My group is on Teamspeak. They are supposedly adding it this year, but it’s been radio silence for months.

@Saff@lemmy.ml
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Well the minute they do and it works for sharing videos as well so we can watch YouTube as a group then we will drop discord super quick. I won’t want to host it at mine but I’ll happily pay for a vps for it.

@glimse@lemmy.world
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I thought discord streaming was so dumb until I was trying to reach my friend something in a game. Now we use it a couple times per month, it’s great. I hate that I like Discord lol

@Evotech@lemmy.world
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Discuss without voice, might aswell use IRC

Just use mumble for voice

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Cool, what are some alternative discord clients to use with it ?

I’ve been trying to find a more privacy-friendy alternative to Discord but I keep coming back to the issue of screen sharing. No other platform does it as smoothly.

The best I’ve found is using Parsec with some virtual audio cables to avoid voice feedback.

Spacebar looks great, and is exactly what I want, but it doesn’t look close to production ready yet

@Jozzo@lemmy.world
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Yep it’s not near finished. This is one of those projects that’s sat in my “keep an eye on it” bookmarks for a good while, I figured I’d post it to get some attention on it, because it does look very promising.

@node815@lemmy.world
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I test installed it in Proxmox in a Debian 12 LXC for the sever part, it was fairly easy, just run three commands. The client was as well, but failed to do something with the email during registration. It has a while longer to go I think. But I put it in my bookmarks to visit every so often as well. :)

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