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If we want an open chat service, I’dd look into Matrix, which is federated like kbin/lemmy. Its also a work in progress, but it does support both text chat and voice/video chat. And it does have rudimentary “spaces” which lets you group channels and such, which makes it easy for people to discover the channels in our community.

Feel like this would have made a great theme for Photoshop battles

I have a big enough house to be able to put this machine somewhere out of the way but there are plenty of cheap server gear on classifieds. I paid ish 300 euros for a 32 core machine with 40gb ram. I can host all the things without it even breaking a sweat.

Probably uses a lot more electricity, but I haven’t really noticed it on my power bill

I hope a fair few move over, but I’m afraid the number of 3rd party app users is lower than we anticipate

It looks really nicely wrapped up, but i still hope for a season 2.