Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

Post by nativeit » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 2:42 PM UTC

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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.

Post by xboxnolifes » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 8:24 AM UTC

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Weird, I have never noticed a single one of the issues you mention. There really isn't much I don't like about discord, though I wished threads worked more like Slack.

Funny. Every day at work, I lament that Slack's threads don't work like Discord's. What do you like about them?

Post by grotorea » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 5:03 PM UTC

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Well, I guess it's better than the reddit alternatives that are full of communities who got banned from reddit.

Out of curiosity, I've just looked at the front page of lemmy.org, and its community seems virtually indistinguishable from reddit.

Post by rkuykendall-com » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 5:55 PM UTC

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I do terribly. However you needed SysAdmin skills to administrate a *nix box. System skills to run the forum and webserver configuration. And money to pay for the webhost/vps/cloud minus any malicious actions such as DDoS or bandwidth stealing. All three are sparse now and not forgetting the laws of the country. UK has become a pain to host anything community oriented.

There is cheap managed hosting for forums. I use one such for my BBS.

Post by hirako2000 » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 9:49 AM UTC

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Skype is ending this year. Some founders and investors won but only thanks to greater fools. (notable that three of the four greater fools in your post are Microsoft)

May not be clear, even to finops at Microsoft. Skype tech ended up in Lync subsequent versions, aka Skype for enterprise. The user base also became a free ad target (to buy the entire consumers tool suite) I remember being constantly nudged to sign up for the free 30 days One Drive to backup Skype pictures and the jazz. So creative these heads of sales at MS.