Came across this on the r/selfhosted community. Still very much in the alpha stages, but it’s already got a Docker image you can try out for yourself, or try out the demo server.
Tried it earlier today, couldn’t get the voice/video chat to work right away on my self-hosted setup but the real-time chat was very snappy. Looks promising.


Sure, pick a server (like you did for Lemmy) and register. Choose any of the supported apps and start.
https://matrix.org/try-matrix/
Yah, did so long ago. Comment still stands. We are in Selfhosted…
You didn’t selfhost your Lemmy instance…
Different usecase, but I wouldn’t be particularly scared. OP is about a selfhosted discord replacement (lacks E2EE so far I think), I’d quite like that if didn’t look like more of a maintenance burden than the rest of my stack combined (even without moderation burden, but I’m thinking of keeping a small server). I also think it’d be a social boon to have millions (even thousands) of independent discords pop up.
Do you host your own matrix ? Did it go down when matrix.org did ?
A friend of mine hosts a matrix server and I have an account there, it had no problems when matrix.org went down
Fair enough, thanks.