Open-source, self-hosted communication with voice, video, and text. No paywall. No data harvesting.
Discord changed the way people talk online. But somewhere along the way, it stopped being about communities and started being about upselling Nitro. Your messages live on someone else's servers. Features you'd expect to be standard are locked behind a subscription. And if Discord decides to shut down your server, there's nothing you can do about it.
I got tired of that trade-off. So I built RyftBorn — a platform where your community runs on your hardware, your data stays yours, and every feature ships free. Text channels (Voids), voice and video (Drifts), direct messages (Whispers), screen sharing, reactions, file uploads — all of it. No tiers. No "upgrade to unlock."
Deploy it on a $5 VPS or a spare machine in your closet. It's a Docker compose up and you're running. That's it.
Markdown, reactions, replies, file sharing, GIFs, link previews. The basics, done right.
Crystal clear calls with screen sharing and webcam support. Powered by LiveKit.
Private conversations within your community. No friend requests or discoverability nonsense.
Your server, your data. PocketBase + Bun. Runs anywhere Docker does.
Read the code, fork it, extend it. No black boxes. MIT licensed.
Native app built with Tauri. Lightweight, fast, cross-platform.