Sharkord - Open Source Self-Hosted Chat Platform
sharkord.com
Privacy-first, self-hosted real-time chat platform. Own your data, control your conversations.

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.

  • taco_shale032@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    2 个月前

    Keep in mind that this project is likely vibe coded, or at least seems very AI assisted. (Copilot is mentioned in the .gitignore file and this was built by a single person in about 4 months) A bunch of security issues have already been opened.

    Edit: @just_another_person@lemmy.world already mentioned this, my bad. 😄

  • HumanDent@lemmy.zipEnglish
    111·
    2 个月前

    While I appreciate the effort devs put into making open source alternatives to a closed source app, the naming convention is really starting to get irritating…

    Discord splits out to

    • Armcord
    • Legcord
    • Now Sharkord

    YouTube has

    • InnerTune
    • Which turned into OuterTune

    Libre-this, Libre-that, Libre-cock and balls.

    …I would love for devs to separate their software’s name just a little bit more from the thing they’re trying to replace. Please. Just be more unique. The name can still have a nod to what it’s replacing and not just be a partial modification to the original name.

    • zewm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      2 个月前

      The user experience for matrix is absolutely dog shit. Anyone who says otherwise is huffing copium.

      I have been setting up matrix servers and testing every desktop and mobile client. I cannot present this to my discord group as an alternative.

    • priapus@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 个月前

      Drop-in voice channels are a requirement for a discord alternative, Matrix does not have them. AFAIK you still need to call an entire channel to start a voice chat.

    • marud@piefed.marud.frEnglish
      7·
      2 个月前

      Tried a few months ago, the documentation for self hosting was lacking lots of info and now I can’t even find it…

      • Epzillon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 个月前

        Yeah, I lade my acc a year ago and iirc they didnt have voice chat then. Now they seem to have better permissions for channels, vc and video/screen sharing around the corner. Only thing Im lacking is fediverse type of instances so we can only pray that will be developed one day. As of now idk what the status on self-hosting is but ive seen the devs link alot about it in their official server

      • Epzillon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 个月前

        Yup, saw some stats from screenshots on there, their mail service had a cap of 300 mails monthly and it blew up to over 50 000. Verification/mail servers went up again yesterday at 4am CET but still seems like the authentication servers are pretty overrun.

  • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
    3·
    2 个月前

    Thank you for sharing, this looks like it has potential and its brand new. Love you FOSS nerds.