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[–] Konaber@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

I want something that works like Discord for my gaming group (~120 people) and is self-hostable with a single „docker-compose up -d“.

But I started looking regularly for alternatives, and we will get there :)

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 minutes ago

Mattemost? Rocketchat?

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Closest your going to get is fluxer. It unfortunately only just entered open beta. So the self host option while there... Is not simple yet.

Tho it's on the road map.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

Nothing will ever be just "docker compose up" but checkout movim. I think it's good. Haven't used it myself yet.

It's not quite as simple as a single docker compose, but the Element Server Suite for hosting a matrix home server (synapse) was fairly simple to get working.