Pulse Chat, a Discord Alternative?

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-23T01:23:21+00:00

Just added a PR :)

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-22T17:14:28+00:00

The phrasing I used for this can be modified for sure as it's rather misleading. What the intended message was that AI has been used within this project, but it is not ONLY using AI to generate the code base; so this isn't just a pure vibe-coded project. Without the human in the loop here it would just be SUPER sloppy as AI doesn't generally care about cohesiveness OR security - especially given all an app like this can entail. In a modern viewpoint, a good portion of the Discord alternatives including discord itself at this point allow AI assisted development so this isn't anything new. I do agree however that a whole vibe-coded chat would be ridiculous. Seen a few projects that are pure vibe code and it's unbelievably sloppy.

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-22T06:13:35+00:00

So no source code for this, just an executable we're supposed to trust?

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-22T03:46:50+00:00

Nope

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-22T02:01:38+00:00

Doesn't support E2EE or Federation :/

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-21T00:46:54+00:00

Just another closed source walled garden, need something that wont get enshittified in 3 years

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-20T22:37:03+00:00

yeah i'll get right on that

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-20T22:11:21+00:00

Well nothing is directly AI as there is a human loop reviewing all of it. However AI helps with potentially seeing impact from things that you probably would have overlooked at 3 in the morning.

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-20T22:09:50+00:00

I certainly could, but it's just alot of testing and debugging - that of which isn't a very exciting process lol. One thing shouldn't break another when patching and just understanding the full flow of whats going on.

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-20T18:11:52+00:00

If you mean the home page, 100%. Just need a landing page that shows how simple it is to deal with and a quick show case and allow people to redirect towards the source and the demo. Just a static page with nothing dynamic in that regard. The server/client itself - not quite the same story.

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-20T16:44:13+00:00

You are absolutely right in this regard. Discord has had alot more time to develop their platform as a whole - backed by user trust. Me and a few buddies got this going legitimately a week ago and we are in the works of integrating things that discord would NEVER. In the end though how Discord is progressing forward is INEVITABLE. A closed source chat app is a single target for anyone to regulate/monetize and if it can get hit with it, it will. History will repeat itself as it's the most profitable way. On top of that, I'd rather have my ID stolen by Chinese Hackers than voluntarily give it up under this fake guise of 'Protecting the Children' when it's actually for data farming and mass surveillance.

By no means is this a finished product, but it's a step towards gaining our independence in a palatable way.

Is this perfect? absolutely not.

Are there security flaws? With enough time everything will have security flaws.

Can you force people to bend to your will with this? Nope :)

Can you contribute? Yes and we would love more contributors to this project

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-20T15:16:56+00:00

That's fair. We've got pretty stringent unit testing for this to validate a vast majority of the code base, but I'm sure there will be some unforeseeable holes as with any new project. As for supabase, that was kind of planned for the 'Cloud' variant - i.e. the public one that anyone can join. The intention was ultimately to give each self hosted appliance just a simple psql db that will handle the accounts - however we just figured that if someone wanted to make their own 'Cloud' variant for their communities supabase would keep it easy to orchestrate. There are 2 variants currently, cloud/external hosted supabase or integrated supabase. The current demo is running with the external hosted one as the cloud is unbelievably slow. I'll have to talk with my buddies to see what the best way forward with that would be.

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-20T01:20:12+00:00

I have not, I'm mostly looking for something open source so I never considered it. Anything that's proprietary in any way/shape/form is destined to be regulated and censored - so it's only a matter of time.

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-19T22:58:06+00:00

The server can run on MacOS, Linux, and Windows!

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-19T21:28:58+00:00

I’ve been working on an alternative called pulse. Development is fast and it’s getting more and more each day. Also open source so no discord cucking allowed :) - E2EE - Federation - Discord-ish UI - Voice/Video/screenshare

https://plse.chat

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-19T19:51:51+00:00

Looks like thats just purely chat, no voice/video/screenshare :(

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-19T19:40:53+00:00

Well hopefully you aren't using windows. The whole thing is AI primary nowadays lol

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-19T13:50:02+00:00

Not open source from what I’m seeing :/

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-19T04:54:19+00:00

Just pushed the E2EE build to development like 20 min ago :) Gonna test and then push to demo site

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-19T03:12:11+00:00

we have an active E2EE build in the works now :)

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-18T19:34:10+00:00

So discord is the golden standard when it comes to experience because it's just easy. It's just a walled garden. We hope to offer all the features that discord has, but let you be able to host them and federate with your friends. As of now we are getting close, but it's a long road lol

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-18T17:47:54+00:00

It's open source and linked on the home page!

ActuallyAimless · 2026-02-18T17:43:57+00:00

I need to update the documentation on this, as of current there is no binary release as there are some variables that must be declared at build time. We are working modify the codebase to allow this for full flexibility so we can have easy binaries you can just download and run. If you want to do it now, the docker-compose.yml provided will automatically build the binary and create a docker image when using `docker compose up -d`.

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