Discord's not going away, but I looked at setting up a self hosted matrix server last night and had it up with an element client in 20 minutes with docker compose. I don't think I'll do a discord<->matrix bridge (since it requires extra stuff on the discord side and I think you lose encryption, which isn't that important), but if you have buddies who you want to keep in contact with, it's not a bad solution
I explored but am avoiding big, public channels because there honestly isn't that much chatting going on in the ones that I found
Almost all clients support file sharing. The Movim client <https://mov.im/> supports screen sharing. It should be noted that both Jitsi & Zoom use XMPP for the roster/chat/handshaking as well; so if you set up a Jitsi server for calls & such, you would already have a working XMPP server on your server that could be co-opted.
I never managed to get file sharing working on my self hosted discord instance. Needing to setup DNS entries and subdomains for every little feature got tiresome and I gave up.
Also the default of "save all shared files on the server" didn't sit well with me.
But xmpp is so damn complicated I am 100% sure I am misunderstanding everything and doing something wrong.
I’m in Australia and I was able to bypass it using a picture of my drivers license with a picture from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ and some light image editing to change the details.
There is the option to scan your face but that requires you to move your head around.
I explored but am avoiding big, public channels because there honestly isn't that much chatting going on in the ones that I found
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