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Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by bilekas »

jeffhuys wrote: post #30
weberer wrote: post #11

>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.

Who determines what’s credible or not? This sounds like “if we don’t like what you have to say, you’re gone”.

And why is that a bad thing ? That's the free market. The business owns the platform and you don't have an innate 'right' to be there.

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by yownie »

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.

I couldn't agree more

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by _mitterpach »

DuncanCoffee wrote: post #56
_mitterpach wrote: post #31

Note 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)

I would lie if I said I did not ever do something similar, and I am not really aware of any court cases or litigations based on copying a design. Core functionalities, sure.

There is many an open source software that could actually use a little bit of copying from the thing they are trying to emulate. GIMP is still one of the ugliest programs I have installed on my computer.

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by roenxi »

croisillon wrote: post #13

haha i had to laugh at the language selectors: {flag:uk} English (traditional) {flag:us} English (simplified)

I also spot "That’s the website, you can’t scroll further." in large, helpful letters. These people seem to have a pretty solid sense of humour. Mild enough it is difficult to take offence to, playful enough to add character.

Hope they do well; I dislike closed source chat programs.

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by piva00 »

jeffhuys wrote: post #27
croisillon wrote: post #13

haha i had to laugh at the language selectors: {flag:uk} English (traditional) {flag:us} English (simplified)

How to quickly lose a few potential users.

Fragile egos that can't take such a innocuous joke are not really a loss in the overall scheme of things though.
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