I just made a post on discord about this, and I link to alternatives such as a matrix group, signal chat, my YouTube channel, etc. if I am locked out, then I hope my followers can follow me to the new place, whatever that is.
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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Please give me a federated, self-hosted Discord alternative! I'm tired of these bullshit platforms.
Not federated, but Revolt can be self-hosted and is very similar to Discord in the look and feel from what I have seen (I have it installed, but haven't tried getting friends to install it and am not hosting). So it could be worth looking into for folks that are used to Discord.
It's not federated, the developer is specifically against federation. He didn't even support self-hosting properly and officially, until the community made pullrequests in this regard themselves. Revolt is mainly made to be hosted by the developer himself. Probably just another Discord. Open-sourcing the code doesn't do anything.
Good to know information, I haven't looked into it beyond installing it to see how similar it was. Still could be a starting point for some folks that have the option to self-host and more specifically have large friend groups that have issues with only liking the UI of Discord. A very specific scenario for sure, but still nice to have options if one like that were to happen.
No.
I cant even get in my discord because I never get the verification email. Each time I have to contact customer support. F that platform.
I quit discord a year ago for Matrix or XMPP. never looked back.