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Best FOSS alternatives to Slack/Discord? (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by jack@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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I'd been thinking Telegram would be a sufficiently secure alternative, but as Western intelligence gets their hooks into that system I think we need to go self-hosted. Element is the biggest name here, but I'm curious what options are the best for a combination of both security and feature maturity.

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[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

Matrix?

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

Matrix.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

It depends. Are you doing this for an organization? If so, mattermost is a very good option if you want good, concrete division between topics and a slack-based UI. If you want 1:1 or small group communication between people who know each other, Signal is the gold standard. If you really need privacy or are doing 1:1 communication with people you don't know, use Briar. If you want cost over all else, matrix is very resource intensive and XMPP is a better choice. What do you want to do and who do you want to talk to?

[–] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Matrix

[–] Cutecity@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Matrix is probably the best but keep in mind that all messaging apps can have their metadata collected somehow and here's an fyi for matrix itself: https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html

[–] BoneALisa@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So, that's worrying. Is XMPP a feature competative alternative? Is there anything else feature competitive to it?

[–] Cutecity@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

Sorry, I don't know much more than that. The group chat I mod for is transitioning to matrix from discord. We'll probably checkout xmpp once we are mostly done, but we don't want to alienate users so we use repost bots and its going slowly.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

Dark City, the superior version of the Matrix.

[–] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Revolt exists, idk much about it

[–] sag@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

revolt.chat ?