Is this still centralized? Or can you self-host without needing a separate client instance for each host?
Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
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#52Really nice. Perfectly timed for enshitification, and love that it's open source. Now just need some sort of federation and it's good to go. And choosing to go with an established UI will make adoption that much easier when TSHTF.
[just had a longer look around. Is this a Russian project?]
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#53Note that there have been rumours about Discord preparing to go public, I reckon this might be made in preparation for it. I think it is a wise move to offer an alternative. The design is very similar to Discord, could this possibly even go to a copyright breach or is the bar for that set too high?
Lol, the design of discord is identical to about 9000 chat apps no?
There really is no other app in this space on the same quality as Discord. Discord was born out of Skype, Teamspeak and similar being so awful to use. Discord took the complaints from these and made a product which was the best version of them all.
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#54[edit] seems like it's federated
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#55So you have the chance to redesign Discord and you decide to stick with the unicorn-puking emoji-littered eye-scorching UX/UI garbage that Discord is? Interesting.
I prefer IRC over Discord any day but it's very hard to convince other people not familiar with it to make a move away from Discord to it. When people get used to certain features they generally don't want to give them up.
> When people get used to certain features they generally don't want to give them up.
Yeah, I would find it hard going back to not having a offline history and drag 'n drop file upload.
Having to host your own bot for pagetitle preview and user management was also not fun.
You can selfhost your IRC client, which eliminates som of the drawbacks but that also only works for a small portion of people.
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#56Note that there have been rumours about Discord preparing to go public, I reckon this might be made in preparation for it. I think it is a wise move to offer an alternative. The design is very similar to Discord, could this possibly even go to a copyright breach or is the bar for that set too high?
I remember a gitea update where they said in the release text something like "new github-like ui" and they basically copied all of it (check some screenshot of the latest version)
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#57>To ensure users stay safe on the platform, we explicitly disallow: >Misinformation & Conspiracy Theories >Spreading false or misleading information that can cause harm to individuals or society is prohibited. This includes conspiracy theories that have been debunked or lack credible evidence. Why? That sounds so dumb to waste resources policing it.
It’s really fucking boring how every platform that hosts speech tries to nudge you in their direction these days.
I don't know why everyone think's they have a right to say and behave however they want using someone else's services.
If the platform or provider don't want to associate with you, that's their prerogative.
The hubris to assume otherwise is ridiculous.
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#58Reminder that discord is an app for kids. Is your open source code and volunteer run project going to keep kids safe? Is it an advantage that the comms protocols are open and everyone can build bots? Or a disadvantage for this usecase?
Also, how is it an alternative for Discord if it's in a whole different jurisdiction?
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#59The self hosting instructions aren't that friendly imo.
I couldn't even find them. Do you have a link?
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#60Is this still centralized? Or can you self-host without needing a separate client instance for each host?
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