fosscord VS matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

What's the issue with clones like FossCord? What exactly should be different? What's "wrong" with the existing solutions? Because you don't mention that at all.

Es gibt das https://fosscord.com/ Projekt

Also 5 seconds of googling gave me this. https://fosscord.com/

I mean there’s also Fosscord

Fosscord

Have you looked at https://fosscord.com ?

There's Fosscord which aims to be a FOSS Discord alternative. Otherwise go for Matrix, Mattermost or Rocketchat.

There's Fosscord, which is supposed to be a server and client compatible with Discord. Not sure how far along they are at this point though.

I installed my home server via the ansible playbook, gave myself admin privileges and then enabled the api in the playbook. The playbook sets up the server with a reverse proxy and im geting an error 'NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource' when i enter in my credentials.

I actually recommend checking out https://etke.cc/ around Matrix setup and more. As someone who's stood up Matrix a couple times in past (including a go-around with the aforementioned matrix-docker-ansible-deploy), I knew some of the pitfalls were still there in setup, and this go-around I lacked the time to manage a Matrix-specific VPS on top of my other local/remote services, esp. since I wanted to use it with friends and family and thus needed it to be bullet-proof (as well as me-proof!)

I followed the matrix-docker-ansible-deploy as it seems deploying such a stack by hand isn't a piece of cake. I don't find much documentation for deploying a matrix server on top of an existing nginx reverse proxy (SWAG instance in my case) from this guide.

I love self hosting. Here’s my home setup.

Hardware:

Mini atx tower, 8TB usable storage, Debian, AMD processor, 8GB memory

Pfsense Firewall (Tailscale exit node)

Plume Wi-Fi (would like to replace, owned by comcast now)

Solution stack:

Portainer + Docker Compose to manage everything

Nextcloud

Photo Prism

Tailscale (remote WireGuard based access from all my devices. Integrates well with Pfsense)

Home Assistant (amazing platform for home automation and more). I love the new voice control features and mission!

Used to self host Email with Helm hardware company (not k8s Helm) but they went out of business. Self hosting email is annoying thanks to the big email providers and their control over the spam filtering world.

Matrix chat server bridging all the chat interfaces I use. This is managed by an awesome open source Ansible playbook https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

Pihole

FAQ

Sounds like it takes way more effort than I thought. After some research I was able to find an automated ansible deployment (here: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy) . Looks like its helping much with manual work via ansible.