Open-source alternatives to Element

One open-source project is offered as a replacement for Element: Cabal-desktop. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.

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  Cabal-desktop914 stars · network copyleft · quiet

  Desktop client for Cabal, the p2p/decentralized/local-first chat platform.

  Also replaces Discord, Revoltchat

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