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Gryt-Chat: Like Discord but Self Hosted (discussion.scottibyte.com)

submitted 8 months ago by klu9@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Gryt-Chat is a self-hosted chat server for text chat, file transfer, voice & video calls and high resolution screen and system audio sharing. This new self-hosted application is a free alternative to Discord.

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It really looks like every programmer wannabe is trying to bumrush a Discord codeslop for free internet fame points these days!

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

So what do we call these? Cordslop?

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

Bringing back a meme from the very early '00s (if not earlier), I'd say something like "Cloning Discord is my passion".

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[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

yeah agreed. I'm fully in support of an open source discord alternative, it's sorely needed, but expecting to vibe code real time communication tells me exactly which programmers have worked with real time systems before. RTC is not something you vibe code successfully haha.

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[–] liuther9@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago

Btw is it ai slop if I use AI to help me through if I do reviewing and googling and fact checking because I don't trust it? It is really good as a general knowledge source in my opinion

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