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Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. (sharkord.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Building the full stack of a functional real-time voice and video comms system as a lone dev is not a trivial undertaking.

Even if they put 40/wk or more into it, I'd still be impressed. Like I said, not impossible but these people are rare.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    WebRTC is a thing. You don't have to build all that from scratch. It's very reasonable to piece together a lot of standard technologies to make this progress much quicker. I haven't looked into this project, so I don't know, but I know it was pretty trivial to setup a WebRTC app 10 years ago, which would appear to be a fully functioning video app.

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