This isn't nearly enough to change my opinion of DHH, an out-and-proud piece of shit.

There are some other projects in this space already, with varying levels of open source / selfhostability / features

https://zulip.com/

https://revolt.chat/

https://mattermost.com/

https://www.rocket.chat/

Zulip and Revolt looked the most promising for Slack and Discord replacements respectively

Here’s the link to the basecamp/once-campfire GitHub repo.

I’ve got X blocked on all my personal devices but I opened the tweet on my work computer to retrieve it.

How does it compare to mattermost or rocketchat?

I was a mattermost admin on a pretty big corporate instance ages ago, it faded out not because of teams but because of lacking integration with productivity software.

Actually we were denied integration efforts because trust issues OSS vs corpo. How ironic today when pretty much everything is tied to a foreign cloud ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Not sure what I'll use this for yet, but I'm going to see if I can host it tonight I guess. Didn't have anything else planned .

Edit: or not.. still looks like you need a paid license at this point

Are there any restrictions on a FOSS instance? Is there a pay wall?

I don’t see how it replaces anything without audio & video calls. Doesn’t mattermost already cover this scope...? And a lot of other open source softwares... For me, the rarest and dearest feature is these fixed call channels you have in discord. Matrix and element have them, but their ui is shit. I'm waiting for it to be implemented on Cinny, there is a PR for that.

Sigh, why build this with Ruby on rails :/