Raglan Niall  Mar 17, 2024
#opensource version of #discord ?
I see some great collaborations being carried out on Discord (text chat with many channels). I want to start a project that would benefit from this collaboration but don't want to use Discord - concerns of ownership of data & corporate moving of goalposts primarily. Does anyone have experience of using an OS (open source not Mac mess) version? I feel Mastodon could in theory work for this but would like a 'for dummies' set of instructions if so. Thank you 😀
Show threadAce_of_base2Mar 17, 2024
@Niall what’s the use case? If you want a closed, invite only system for communication and collaboration, have you looked into NextCloud? Or perhaps Gitlabs is more your style? Honestly, I’d love to see a fediverse discord alt.
Show threadRaglan Niall  Mar 17, 2024
@digital_cowboy discussing different aspects of a hobby project, invite only is this use case. But ideally it becomes something people use for their projects without needing to get yet another user account, password.
Show threadAce_of_base2Mar 17, 2024
@Niall have you looked at hosting your own Gitlab instance? It’s open source and has tons of features.
ETA: gitlab hosted on gitlab (yo dawg…)
https://gitlab.com/rluna-gitlab/gitlab-ce
GitLab / GitLab Community Edition · GitLab

GitLab Community Edition (CE) is an open source end-to-end software development platform with built-in version control, issue tracking, code review, CI/CD, and more. Self-host GitLab CE on your...

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Show threadJimmyMar 18, 2024

@digital_cowboy @Niall one thing i'd say is that gitlab is pretty heavy if you don't have lots of projects.

I've been working on deploying forgejo at home (its a gitea fork) - i haven't looked as this is repo just for me, but its supposedly got collaboration baked in.

Show threadAce_of_base2
@JimmyKip @Niall IIRC, there’s also git plugins for a lot of platforms, such as NextCloud, where you can have all your project management and comms one place, but tie into something lighter, like gitea 🤷‍♂️.
This is why use case analysis helps. If you know your specific needs, you can tailor the right solution to fit 👍
Mar 18, 2024 at 12:29amWeb
Show threadJimmyMar 18, 2024

@digital_cowboy @Niall Oh yeah, for sure. I mean, im mostly setting up forgejo so i have somewhere local for YADM to send all my dotfiles.

Plus a place to store notes other than a dozen unsaved tabs in notepad++ on my windows machine would be nice :)

Show threadAce_of_base2Mar 18, 2024
@JimmyKip this conversation makes me feel like we need something akin to GitHub, with the social aspect of mastadon, where developers can work together on open source or personal projects and leverage the community, but within the fediverse. I’d totally host a node for such a network.
Show threadRaglan Niall  Mar 18, 2024
@digital_cowboy @JimmyKip yes please. Sadly that's not the project I'm working on though!
Show threadAce_of_base2Mar 18, 2024
@Niall @JimmyKip if you ever want another side project, hit me up :D
Show threadAce_of_base2Mar 18, 2024
@JimmyKip to your second point regarding notes, I recently found (and fell in love with) Joplin, an open source notes app that really seems to get it ‘right’.
https://joplinapp.org/
Joplin website

Joplin, the open source note-taking application

Show threadRaglan Niall  Mar 18, 2024
@digital_cowboy @JimmyKip thanks for this 'lots of unsaved notepad++ files' made me think you'd got a look at my desktop!