I just had my account deactivated from Discord for ToS violation (I didn't do anything wrong, I just tried to send a friend request), but that's not the most important thing.

Now that I no longer have an account, and I've been wanting to leave Discord for a while for a better, self-hosted, open-source alternative, this is the best time.

I know of Matrix, XMPP servers and applications that work very well, but none of them work in the same way, or have the same feel as Discord. I see more alternatives for professional use than for gamers or communities.

Revolt exists, but last time I checked, you can't really host it yourself, and I haven't read good things about it. (I don't remember the website listing all the negative aspects.)

That brings me to my two questions.

Can you list some alternative to Discord that I probably don't know ?
If you want a alternative to Discord, what are your requirements to using it ? I'm not saying I can or will, but I think I can try to create one.

PS: I already trying to get my account back (but I have the same response from the support and I can't send request to "Appeals & Age Update Requests" because of ToS violation) and even if I manage to get it back I really want to leave discord right now.

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

There indeed was an alternative called Revolt. Idk if it's still maintained. Though I had quite bad experience with it so can't recommend. Another alternative is Guilded which seems dead in terms of development but it has an active (and very small) user base. I think it can even be self-hosted. But ultimately you need to be ready for changes if you want to leave Discord. There's nothing quite like it, especially in terms of convenience and popularity.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 15 points 1 month ago

I’m pretty sure revolt.chat is still going? I am using it.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you confused Revolt and Guilded. Guilded is the proprietary one developed by Roblox.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No, mister/miss. I am sure I had bad experience with Revolt. Guilded seemed fine but I haven't used it much myself.

EDIT: also Guilded originally was an independent project which then was bought by Roblox.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, my point being Guilded was always proprietary and never hostable.