Maybe. Looking like the best option right now.

Oh no, not another Lemony Snikket rabbit hole.

Yeah, I know. I wanted to pack as much info into the title as I can, and it turned out like technobabble. ^^;

I have considered looking into renting a VPS, but considering my friends group does A LOT of voice calling and streaming over Discord I dint think super lightweight is an option. Even so, not having to pay for a server is always better than having to pay any amount for one.

I’ll take a look at ejabberd. Didn’t know there were specific preferences for clients.

It’s a bit of both:

My friends need a drop-in replacement for Discord (or as close as possible), sooner rather than later. My idea for self hosting is to defeat the need of someone hosting a 24/7 server; if we all host our own accounts on our own computers we’d essentially have a peer-to-peer Discord-like group.

The other reason is indeed to learn, because every centralised service has the same problem; it’s not a question if a service will turn bad, but when. It’s an inevitability, and it’s happening faster and more frequently. The only out-way I see is if me and at least some of my friends learn to self-host.

No, like a legit game engine that is advertised as “console ready”.

Well, you’ll be glad to hear that Toyota, yes, that Toyota, announced a new open source game engine, with deep integration of Blender 3D.

Obviously. And it’ll be just as broken. Show it’s technical age even more.

Are we surprised?

It’s about time America stops electing people who need to be in elder care homes as their politicians.

I mean… It seems 404 Media explicitly asked Grok about inserting food up your rectum.

America doesn’t have a left wing. America has a right wing and an extreme right wing. The closest to an actual leftist that America has is Mamdani, and America’s so-called left wing politicians tried their best to make him look evil.

I prefer quality over quantity. Problem is we don’t have quality, even for games that take a long time.

Alright. But how do we stop the AI spyware from constantly monitoring our activity?

Might not be an issue for me since I’m using the flatpak of Vesktop, but getting all my none-technical friends to move away from Discord will be pain.

Soft white bread? Nobody but rich upper class people could afford soft white bread until well past the industrial revolution.

That’s also a pretty large roasted bird that’s being eaten in complete absence of stew.

Not even push to talk!? What the fuq?

Yeah, so, “most users” won’t have to post video selfies or their ID, but you’ll still have to accept active spyware feeding information to an AI model that checks all your activity.

This is still equally as bad.

Have you considered self hosting Matrix?

But… But… They pinky promise it’s all secure, and that they won’t hold any of your data! You can’t trust a pinky promise? You monster!

Compared to Europe they’re right-off-center.

In other words, America has no left. Only right and extreme right.