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.