A friend of mine (Gardiner Bryant of YouTube - who reports on Linux and the Steam Deck) has started a Revolt server.
What is Revolt?
It’s kinda like a FOSS alternative to Discord. You’ll see the layout is almost a direct copy, and it’s far less polished…but then again you haven’t got the downsides of Discord’s constant upselling either:
…I can hear you ask? Well, so far its just a few developers and creators in there, but I thought of all spaces…maybe those very devs and creators whose work you use and watch…well it might be nice to join in there?
I was looking into it, but to self-host with Docker you also need to run like 5 other containers or something ridiculous like that. I’ll stick to conduwuit (Matrix) for now.
Edit: The example compose file for revoltchat/sefhosted creates 13 containers all using separate images. That’s truly insane.
Oof. I’m already put off when I see a compose file that has more than like 3 containers, but that one really takes the cake. Two message brokers, two proxys, three webservers, two daemons and another handful of other containers? That’s, indeed, truly insane.
Just because it’s now easy to deploy giant stacks of server software doesn’t mean you should.
Not to mention, the documentation to set it up was awful, it took me months to get it working and I still had problems with the MinIO container so it wouldn’t upload attachments or pictures for profiles. Even getting past that, the stack required more containers added after the fact to support voice chat. I gave up when I saw drama go down last year about how the project wasn’t fully open sourcing.
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I was looking into it, but to self-host with Docker you also need to run like 5 other containers or something ridiculous like that. I’ll stick to conduwuit (Matrix) for now.
Edit: The example compose file for revoltchat/sefhosted creates 13 containers all using separate images. That’s truly insane.
Oof. I’m already put off when I see a compose file that has more than like 3 containers, but that one really takes the cake. Two message brokers, two proxys, three webservers, two daemons and another handful of other containers? That’s, indeed, truly insane.
Just because it’s now easy to deploy giant stacks of server software doesn’t mean you should.
Not to mention, the documentation to set it up was awful, it took me months to get it working and I still had problems with the MinIO container so it wouldn’t upload attachments or pictures for profiles. Even getting past that, the stack required more containers added after the fact to support voice chat. I gave up when I saw drama go down last year about how the project wasn’t fully open sourcing.
Yeah their stack is insane