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Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by mikewarot »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #47

The biggest selling point of Discord is its insane network effects. There are servers for libraries/frameworks, languages, ai/ml, math, whatever you can think of. And a lot of the adjacent ones will cross-link scheduled events and messages from other servers. I'm really hoping for an alternative. I'm always weary of en-shitification whenever a single platform wins all the users.. like what has happened to Reddit.

The deceptive nature of Discord's "servers" has always made me wary. You're trusting one service with everything, it's Reddit all over again.

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by Arathorn »

foresto wrote: post #338
ksp-atlas wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cinny exists as a discord-like client, thing is, Matrix is mostly the text chat part, it doesn't implement voice chats or anything. Also, the space/room system works differently to discord server/channel

> Matrix is mostly the text chat part, it doesn't implement voice chats or anything. It's in progress. Keywords: MatrixRTC, Element Call https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/#3-nat...

fwiw, Matrix has had video rooms since 2022: https://element.io/blog/drop-in-drop-out-chats-with-video-ro... - and VoIP calling since day one in 2014.

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by josteink »

das_keyboard wrote: post #185

Looking at https://rvlt.gg/discover/servers it seems that all reasonably active servers are either turkish[0] or anime related. [0]: Turkey banned Discord in 2024: https://www.reuters.com/technology/turkey-blocks-instant-mes...

So like Mastadon then.

Every time I’ve looked into it, every server I’ve checked has been filled with furries and anime-avatars.

I mean, I’m glad they’ve found a community where they feel at home, but it kinda makes it a hard pass for the rest of us ;)

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by vivzkestrel »

didip wrote: post #306

I am surprised that it is written in Rust. Bi-directional long live connections don't require Rust's raw horsepower. Maybe it's needed for audio/video streaming? Is the API discord compatible? That's basically necessary for adoption.

what do you think it should be written in? golang?

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by crtasm »

jisnsm wrote: post #142
bryanhogan wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No platform can allow you to 100% say whatever you want, just how it has limit to what it can enforce. Every platforms has to balance this fact. It is impossible to enforce clear borders on this as well, as human interaction is endlessly complex.

They can allow you to 100% say whatever you want as long as the law allows them to host your speech. If they try to limit you beyond that, they are censoring you, which is what is occurring here.

Anyone that feels this type of moderation is censorship can use/host an instance with different rules.

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by verdverm »

Aachen wrote: post #312
magicalhippo wrote: post #64

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https://github.com/revoltchat/self-hosted As for clients I don't know.

8 GB RAM minimum for a non-graphical server software?! This thing must have more components and services than my desktop OS while having a few website open in Firefox and Chromium each

9 services, 5 theirs, 4 other OSS

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by crowdstriker »

nativeit wrote: post #165
dan_can_code wrote: post #97

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For the average user, absolutely it's voice and game streaming. But I've found the more I've used discord, is that a lot of online communities, that typically would exist on Reddit or a forum, also have discord servers for communicating and community management.

I have noticed it’s frequently the only outlet for communication with developers and communities, which I find worryingly closed off and hostile to users.

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Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

josteink wrote: post #343
das_keyboard wrote: post #185

Looking at https://rvlt.gg/discover/servers it seems that all reasonably active servers are either turkish[0] or anime related. [0]: Turkey banned Discord in 2024: https://www.reuters.com/technology/turkey-blocks-instant-mes...

So like Mastadon then. Every time I’ve looked into it, every server I’ve checked has been filled with furries and anime-avatars. I mean, I’m glad they’ve found a community where they feel at home, but it kinda makes it a hard pass for the rest of us ;)

I'm on fosstodon.org. Never noticed anything like that, but I also can't say I spent much time checkout out the avatars.

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by smittywerben »

Aachen wrote: post #301
smittywerben wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never been in a Discord server and thought "Wow this server doesn't do the moderator LARP-ing thing".

I'll bite. What's the moderator LARP-ing thing? I've tried looking it up but among irrelevant results (general LARP info) I just found this comment again as the third result...

Discord is shifting focus back to gaming [1]. What was it before? A moderation simulator, of course. That's what I mean by LARP.

You wouldn't stick a kid in the pilot seat of a real Boeing 747, would you?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167147/discord-gaming-f... (2024)

EDIT- Second hint: To summon Galrog the Destroyer, say "Live. Action. Role. Playing." and clap your hands 5 times.

But fear not what is ahead; the entire moderation team's activity status has shown "Playing Roblox" for 8 hours. Luckily, it's just a simulation, and none of this is real.

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by jimmydoe »

jonathantf2 wrote: post #228

Interestingly (and sadly) the largest deployment of this was probably on Andrew Tate's grift course website thing, see the dev's blog: https://insrt.uk/post/andrew-tate-stealing-software-revolt

The largest Mastodon deployment is truth social.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-medi...

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