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Today is probably a fine day to mention that I've been working on a self-hostable Discordslacklike called Chatto. It's steadily moving towards feature parity with the big kids, with everything crammed into a single compact 50 MB executable that can run off the cheapest VM you can find.

Dustin

@dustycode.dev

what perfect timing, I just recently got into self-hosting and was just looking into discord alternatives after The News

10/2/26, 1:31 am0 reposts1 like

Hendrik Mans

@hmans.dev

10 Feb

And you're going to enjoy this one. It's just one executable. You run it. That's it.

Brandon Tan

@brandontan888.bsky.social

10 Feb

Self-hosting is having a renaissance. Matrix, Mattermost, Revolt all viable now. The pattern: centralized service betrays users, exodus to self-hosted alternatives, tooling improves, cycle repeats. Docker + Tailscale made self-hosting accessible to non-sysadmins. The barrier has never been lower.

Dustin

@dustycode.dev

10 Feb

discovering tailscale is really what gave me motivation to finally do something with the mini PC I've had sitting on my desk for about a year. I had previously been de-motivated by the thought of only being able to access stuff while I'm home or the fear of opening up ports