Self-boting is against ToS. You have to be careful when interacting with the Discord API. Maybe there is a way to run the discord website to fetch text messages.

Generally, I think it is better to use a general server OS like Debian or Fedora instead of something specialized like Proxmox or Unraid. That way you can always choose the way you want to use your server instead of being channeled into running it a specific way (especially if you ever change your mind).

And install it as a PWA (it might just be a shortcut idk) on Android

Installing Sherpa Onnx TTS makes it an option to use as your system TTS voice

Librera FD as your reader app: https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/
Sherpa Onnx as your TTS engine: https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx

I recommend the piper TTS pretrained models, either Lessac medium or Kusal high/medium

I don’t fetch from google. Also a VPN does wonders for that.

Custom default settings, speed, and reliability (not IP blacklisted)

• Stirling PDF
• IT Tools
• SearXNG
• Dashy
• PiHole or Adguard home

If the goal is to make a similar experience to discord, we should make a desktop/android client which changes the way the info is shown. I boil down discords main features this: 1-to-1 call/text, modern messenger features (emojis, text, audio, video, link embeds), servers with the option for channels and always on voice chats, group chats (weird overlap with servers). Always on voice chats should be as simple as disabling notifying or dialing members. Is it not just that simple to get a heavily reduced version of discord? Maybe noisetorch for noise cancelation.

Kicksecure Debian CLI: https://www.kicksecure.com/wiki/Debian

Like hosting it from a local server that routes all internet traffic through the VPN to avoid exposing the source of the server’s IP to the unprivate service.

To add to the question, what about using a selfhosted privacy frontend behind a VPN. Does this shrink the need for a crowd.

Caddyserver is nice and easy as well.

Cockpit is a good web ui

Is there a difference between alma and rocky?

Understandable. I have to agree (though I have no experience to back it up)

I looked it up but it doesn’t seem to have support for many messengers.

Are the folders named to websites? Or maybe there associations are recorded in a way that you could script batch rename? Not a great solution but possible maybe.

I have no problems thus far. It does have a docker compatiblity mode as well

You can use LXD guides, it is the same just not under canonical control and with dome new features coming out (I think).