State of the Discord - A Lesson (r/selfhosted) (www.reddit.com)
from sudoer777@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 21:29
https://lemmy.ml/post/50021763

TLDR: The r/selfhosted subreddit has a Discord server. The owner’s account got hacked leaving the server in a precarious state. They submitted a support ticket, but Discord has not taken action in weeks and probably won’t at all, so they are considering starting a new Discord server.

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poVoq@slrpnk.net on 13 Jul 21:49 next collapse

But why a new Discord server? 🤦

Blurntout@lemmy.ca on 13 Jul 22:17 collapse

That’s the punchline brother man

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de on 13 Jul 21:57 next collapse

Fitting that r/selfhosted can’t selfhost.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 22:02 next collapse

Discord sucks.

cookiecoookie@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 22:34 next collapse

They’re a completely unserious owner if they use Discord still as a “selfhoster”, that and getting hacked on top of that shows how careless they are as a moderator.

CovfefeKills@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 23:49 collapse

Self hosting and providing a public service are two very different things.

Joelk111@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 23:51 collapse

I’ve never self hosted a discord alternative, but it doesn’t seem like it’d cost anything to just spin it up beside existing self hosted infrastructure.

CovfefeKills@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 23:59 collapse

Here is some advice then: Don’t run a public service until you understand the risks and are capable of protecting yourself and your users. It isn’t as simple as booting up a service for self use. By using Discord they minimised damages to users it would be worse if they lost control of a Discord alternative with RCE exploits.

jay@pie.zerojay.com on 13 Jul 22:39 next collapse

Matrix, dudes.

senorblackbean@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 23:04 next collapse

Stoat chat has been a good Discord alternative.

RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 23:06 next collapse

What advantage does it have compared to Matrix?/IRC?

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 13 Jul 23:23 collapse

It mimics discord, so functional voice rooms with screen sharing, text channels, and so on…

Zeoic@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 23:50 collapse

Matrix has all that these days too

hexagonwin@lemmy.today on 13 Jul 23:10 collapse

last i checked it was very difficult to run your own instance (including voice chats)

Reannlegge@lemmy.ca on 13 Jul 23:39 collapse

Why, use Redddit if you are in a self hosting community, I understand the community of curious people are there but are you really going to be selling yourself short like that? Than to be using discord as a self hosting community messanger?