Replaces Discord
European alternatives to Discord
European chat platforms for communities and voice
Browse the category: Community chat platforms · Team communication services
Discord is a chat platform built around servers and channels, mixing text, voice and video in the same place. It began with gaming communities and has since spread to study groups, open source projects, hobby clubs and companies that want an informal space for their users. Persistent voice rooms, roles and bots are a large part of the appeal.
A community platform holds the relationship with your members: their accounts, the archive of everything discussed and the rules the whole thing runs under. Groups that want that under their own control, or under European law, need somewhere they can host themselves or contract for in the EU. A European alternative to Discord takes a few forms. Element and Revolt cover chat communities, while TeamSpeak and Mumble concentrate on voice.
European options 6
Our pick
mssgs
Group chat for teams and communities from the Netherlands
mssgs is a group chat app for friends, communities and teams, made by Deverence Group B.V. in the Netherlands. It is organised into servers with channels, alongside direct messages and voice calls. Built-in mini-games, custom bots, webhooks and support for MCP and AI agents extend what a server can do, and there are apps for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and the web.
NetherlandsEU hostedFree plan
GermanySelf-hosted and open source
Open source projects you can run yourself. Not necessarily made in Europe, but nobody else holds your data.
Open source
Questions
Which European alternative is closest for voice chat?
TeamSpeak and Mumble are both built around low latency voice rooms and have long histories in gaming and other communities. Neither tries to be a full chat platform as well.
Can we host the community ourselves?
Element, Revolt and Rocket.Chat can all be run on your own infrastructure, which keeps the message archive under your control. That does mean taking on the operational work.
How do we move an existing community?
Members have to be invited across, so plan an announcement period and keep both places open for a while. Starting with the moderators and most active members usually pulls the rest along.