This was a good read, thanks for posting. I’m on vanilla arch and I looked into switching to Cachy but the size of the team and the direct replacement of Arch specific packages stopped me. I don’t know if I trust a small team, in already the niche OS of today, to maintain everything indefinitely and without issue.

This is one of those scenarios that id wish for those optimizations to come to trunk in a meaningful way than for a separate branch to exist.

Because from what I can tell Matrix isn’t a good Discord replacement. I’ll spin up a server just to trial it, but every person I’ve talked to who isn’t already on Matrix and every thing I’ve seen or read says it’s not a discord replacement, it’s just a chat app.

Stoat and Fluxer can be self-hosted which is my main desire. Something fully under my control, with my data security, that won’t rely on another service to keep it running (although naturally I rely on the code base being maintained, hence donating as if it was a paid product).

Alright, stoat or revolt or anyone else, you’ve got 6 months. I’ll move my group over in 6 months and donate to the best solution. Thanks everyone for pushing back against discord, to the indie devs who are working on alternatives, and to the self-hosting community for making it possible for me to even plan to move off of discord.