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_base2Mar 18, 2024
@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 👍
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 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  
@digital_cowboy @JimmyKip thanks for this 'lots of unsaved notepad++ files' made me think you'd got a look at my desktop!
Mar 18, 2024 at 4:24amWeb