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Ask HN: Can we enumerate FOSS chat, messaging, voip and collaboration software?
Please list noteworthy FOSS that provides any of the below: instant or non-instant messaging, voip, forum, discussion, collaboration, etc.
To start off, I'll mention mailing lists, irc, matrix protocol[1], ring[2], tox[3].
[1] https://github.com/matrix-org
[2] https://ring.cx
[3] https://tox.chat
- qznc 9y agoDone: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted
- webtechgal 9y agoAwesome indeed!!! :-) Just started reading the list, and already found _several_ apps that I've wanted to host = overjoyed!!
- PaulHoule 9y agoLong lists of "chat" applications that are open source or not are the main problem I have with those applications. The dominant theme in this space is that unlike email or the web, no standard has emerged, so there are always new things like "Facebook Instant Messenger" that seem to be "AOL Instant Messenger 0.999999 or 1.000001" but aren't compatible. If you are involved with a few work projects, family, open source projects, etc. you have to have ten or so communications apps open, deal with the overhead on startup, software updates, overhead while it is running, all the various foibles of these things.
- dmos62 9y agoAgreed. I associate this with greedy closed software that relies on network ownership and overly tolerant consumers.
- khedoros1 9y agoThat seems like a very broad request. Are you looking for clients? Servers? Self-hosted web solutions? Just names of protocols? Say that I spent a few minutes listing off every piece of related software that I can think of. What's the purpose and benefit?
- dmos62 9y agoThat's a good question. Purpose and benefit is the promotion of free software in the niche of everyday communication. We list and discuss FOSS options, maybe furthering their use.
- mobitar 9y agoPrivacytools.io (https://privacytools.io https://privacytools.io) has a good collection. A lot of privacy software is FOSS. Standard Notes (https://standardnotes.org https://standardnotes.org) is up there which is a free open-source encrypted notes app that I work on.