Selfhosted @lemmy.world Possibly linux @lemmy.zip 3d ago

Self hosted Teams alternative?

I'm looking for something that can do chat, video calling with support for guess links and chats. I need it to work in the browser so I can send people a link to a chat session. Bonus if it has a simple mobile app and calendar integration.

Anyone know of something that isn't Nextcloud Chat?

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Matrix with the Jitsi meet plugin.
There is no way to do what teams does without significant infrastructure. Same with Slack and others.

If you want something that just gets close to the mark, look at Jitsi. It's about as complete as you could expect for just video/voice.

What you may not understand about conferencing platforms is that they are dozens of different hosted services working together to provide a cohesive UE. Video, SIP, VOIP, auth, identity...these are all separate services that are deployed as microservices to get what you get. If you find the bare minimum of the services you actually need, you can probably cobble something together, but it's not going to be a simple running of one service to get the same experience.
- I'm hosting a matrix server with a TURN server and it's fairly easy to selfhost. This sounds exaggerated.
  
  That just covers voice/video. OP is asking about a lot more.
  
  Do you need Element for that? Also is there a way to do guest access with a link?
- It isn't that hard. All I'm looking for is a chat/video call service. Jitsi is close but it purely does video calling. I want something that is a chat where guests can join a group with a link. That shouldn't take much. (It didn't with Nextcloud)
  
  Well if "it shouldn't take much", then it shouldn't be hard to find a solution, right?
  
  I'm now wondering why you're here asking this question if you fully understand what you're asking about.
  
  Then write a howto instead of asking here. That shouldn't take much.
  
  @possiblylinux127 mattermost should do the trick. @just_another_person
  
  Jitsi is close but it purely does video calling.
  
  Not sure what you mean by that. Turn off the camera and you've got an audio chat.
  
  I want something that is a chat where guests can join a group with a link.
  
  That's exactly how Jitsi works.
  
  Signal is not self hosted but they also support videoconference style calls.
- If you want something to mangle the formating on his Office documents there really is no alternatives available sadly. Chat there is.
I've been using self-hosted Jitsi Meet for a few weeks now. Works perfectly. Haven't tried the calendar feature, though.
You want either mattermost or the whole matrix stack (backend, plus element with voice/video calls).

Matrix/Element is more of a discord alternative, whereas mattermost tries to be more of a slack alternative, where it seems to have some calendar integrations.
I already made a comment but you should also look at rocketchat and revolt, since they are basically FOSS discord clones

(I saw comments in the thread about wanting audio only calls.)
I haven’t tried it myself but Mattermost offers most of what you’re looking for.

https://github.com/mattermost
Jit.si
- Self hosting allows you to improve screen share framerate
- We use this at work. Great for screen sharing and video chat
- I like Jitsi, but when I record a session it always silently aborts after about 40 minutes.
Check out Big Blue Button - https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/

Their website talks all about using it for teaching students but it's really just like Jitsi with more features.
- Big bluebutton is now integrated into Canvas, an open source learning management software (LMS) that every school I have went to has used.
Huly is pretty amazing and has a self host option. It supports chats and video calls, team rooms, and has some cool integration for speech to text note taking. It also functions as a task tracker.

Under super active development right now so host only if you can deal with occasional breaking changes.
- Idk, I've heard things about HooliChat... Didn't their stream go down in the middle of a big title fight?
  
  Plus that Gavin Belson guy keeps trying to jam his horrible signature into his products.
- What's their revenue model? Thanks for sharing
  
  They have a SaaS option as well, I'm guessing that's the main revenue plan.
I think Mattermost is intended to be just that.
Element Server Suite Community https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm
I have not tried Matrix yet but I hear it's a good replacement, fashioned more to the likes of Discord but I think it has everything you're looking for
- I've been using matrix for quite a while now and I'm very happy with it.
  
  The thing to be aware of though is that it takes quite a bit of work to get started, but once you've got it up and running it doesn't need much coddling. It's got video calling built into it now and can be entirely web based if you want it to be. I have all of my signal, WhatsApp and SMS messages being brodged over through it which is handy. I've also got a discord bridge set up which will bring all DMs and let's me bridge any of the servers I want to bring over.
  
  it's been my one app for communicating with anyone that wants to talk to me on any IM platform I use, as well as any of the federated rooms and spaces I want to access from other home servers I want to work with.
  
  Edit: I also recently added authentication via oidc which was great as now I don't need to worry about passwords as I just authenticate with passkeys on most of my self hosted services.
- No!
I use jami but i dont think it fits your need for guess links.

Still leave it here just in case

https://jami.net/

Jami is a free/libre, end-to-end encrypted, and private communication software.
- Jami is a stability and security nightmare
  
  I wouldn't recommend it
  
  Please tell us more about the actual security problems!
  
  Im using it for 3 months now and I did not notice any stability issue. One time I experienced a long delay in receiving a message.
  
  Do you have any details on why its a security nightmare?
  
  All communications are peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted.
Anyone know of something that isn't Nextcloud Chat?

Do you absolutely need to put ONE tag on it all and say this is it?
Jitsi

,but it is a pain in the ass to selfhost with good performance.

You can take a look here as well:

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#communication---video-conferencing

One alternative that is not on the awesome selfhosted list is: https://edumeet.org/

But it is even more of a PAIN to selfhost it.
Vdo.ninja
If you don't mind seperated tools that do well in their own :

Zulip for chat

Jitsi for video meeting

And whatever calendar you want for the calendar
I R fucking C. Who needs all the other garbage in teams?

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