Best selfhosted discord Alternative

Published at May 23, 2025

#Open Source#Foss Software#Chat Apps#Gaming#Self Hosted

Getting started

You will need some dependencies installed on your system before setting up the server!

  • NodeJS 18.0.0 (Other versions wont work)
  • Python 3.10+

Installing

Download the zip containing the code,

  • CDN
  • API
  • Gateway
  • RTC (Voice chat does not work)
  • WebRTC (Voice chat does not work)
  • Util

from here dogwaffle.world (https://cdn.dogwaffle.world/fosscord-server-master.zip) and extract it to a directory of your choice.

After opening a terminal inside the folder run these commands

cd bundle && npm i

After the packages install run

npm run setup

and wait for the task to finish!

and finally run

npm run start:bundle

and wait for the server to start up.

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