Discord alternatives?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/discordapp

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  • Element

    A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.

    The relevant url is https://app.element.io, that’s the web interface for signing up, etc. You can also use an app such as Element on iOS and Android. General information can be found on https://element.io

  • sydent

    Sydent: Reference Matrix Identity Server

    Matrix, if you switch to something other than discord you want it to be decentralized and open source so it's not controlled by any single person or company

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • cinny

    Yet another matrix client

    Matrix is honestly really good, with Element and Cinny being great clients that anyone can use.

  • revolt

    Repository for miscellaneous repository management and discussions: https://github.com/revoltchat/revolt/discussions

    AFAIK that's essentially what https://revolt.chat/ is, and out of the contenders I think it's the best looking one I've seen yet, though like others are saying it's still not nearly as popular and feature-rich as Discord itself unfortunately. If things keep heading in this direction though, maybe that'll change in time

  • client

    Open source, themeable and extendable discord-compatible native Spacebar client (by spacebarchat)

    There also is Spacebar (aka fosscord) https://github.com/spacebarchat/client As well as Discord API "emulators" (litecord)

  • discord

    A Matrix-Discord puppeting bridge (by mautrix)

    Yes, you need to host both the server and the bridge (https://github.com/mautrix/discord for example)

  • banter

    Banter is a feature-rich Discord clone built with React, Redux Toolkit, Next.JS, TypeScript, styled-components, Tailwind CSS, and uses Firebase to communicate with the back-end.

    if anyone is interested in contributing, the source code is here: https://github.com/DevlinRocha/banter

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • spacebarchat

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

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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