Mumble is a free voice-chat program for talking with others in real time, with separate channels for groups. It is for people who want to run their own voice server or join one, and it has no video.
Spacebar is a free, self-hostable chat, voice and video platform that works with Discord-compatible apps and bots. It is for people and groups who want to run their own chat server instead of relying on a company's service.
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Element is a chat app for private messages and group chats over the Matrix network, used in a web browser or as a desktop app. It is for people and teams who want chat they can host and control, with phone apps offered as separate Element X projects.
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Read the list of open-source alternatives at https://opensourceeverything.org/data/groups/community-chat.json. Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
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Here is a list of open-source alternatives to Discord, from Open Source Everything (CC BY-SA 4.0):
- Mumble (BSD-3-Clause, https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble; replaces fully): Mumble is a free voice-chat program for talking with others in real time, with separate channels for groups. It is for people who want to run their own voice server or join one, and it has no video.
- Spacebar (AGPL-3.0, https://github.com/spacebarchat/spacebarchat; replaces fully): Spacebar is a free, self-hostable chat, voice and video platform that works with Discord-compatible apps and bots. It is for people and groups who want to run their own chat server instead of relying on a company's service.
- Element (AGPL-3.0, https://github.com/element-hq/element-web; replaces partly): Element is a chat app for private messages and group chats over the Matrix network, used in a web browser or as a desktop app. It is for people and teams who want chat they can host and control, with phone apps offered as separate Element X projects.
Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
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