Backend Alternatives

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Mastodon

1,225 45,916 10.0 Ruby backend VS Mastodon

Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
homebrew-core

132 13,203 10.0 Ruby backend VS homebrew-core

🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
InfluxDB

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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.
Zulip

117 20,023 10.0 Python backend VS Zulip

Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
fosscord

56 4,732 3.4 JavaScript backend VS fosscord

Discontinued 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform [Moved to: https://github.com/spacebarchat/spacebarchat]
matrix-react-sdk

11 1,069 9.9 TypeScript backend VS matrix-react-sdk

Matrix SDK for React Javascript
desktop

3 725 3.9 TypeScript backend VS desktop

Revolt Desktop App (by revoltchat)
awesome-revolt

2 289 7.2 backend VS awesome-revolt

Collection of Revolt libraries, bots, clients and other cool stuff.
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
server

6 1,310 8.6 TypeScript backend VS server

Spacebar server - A reimplementation of the Discord.com backend, built with Typescript and love (by spacebarchat)
documentation

2 26 3.4 JavaScript backend VS documentation

Revolt documentation website. (by revoltchat)
Howler

1 20 0.0 C# backend VS Howler
api

1 10 4.5 Rust backend VS api

🚀 Core REST API & Gateway for Zaun (by zaunchat)
dilbert-viewer

3 20 5.5 Rust backend VS dilbert-viewer

A simple comic viewer for Dilbert by Scott Adams

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Selfhosted discord alternative
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Mar 2023

What's not open source of Revolt Chat? Last time I checked, they were using GPL 3.0.
How to use API?
1 project | /r/revoltchat | 7 Mar 2023

Our API is documented here, and there's API libraries for popular programming languages (I'd recommend you use one of those instead of rolling your own implementation). To authenticate as bot you have to pass X-Bot-Token instead of X-Session-Token.
Issues with channels
1 project | /r/revoltchat | 12 Sep 2022

Fixed as of https://github.com/revoltchat/backend/commit/86ad72b4264ca08ad39023dacff82684cb0ae9ee.
How discord mange 300M socket connection
3 projects | dev.to | 15 Jul 2022

Revolt
Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord written in Rust
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2021

Just want to suggest that if you're interested in doing this in the future, please put in effort to define interfaces up front. I took a quick look at the codebase and it looks like mongo is "in there pretty good"[0] without any abstraction to make it easily shimmable.
Just a little specification around the that interface (Trait) will go a long way to making other backends possible and should make it much easier to know and manage the API contract a capable database must provide.
[0]: https://github.com/revoltchat/delta/blob/master/src/database...
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