Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing
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It's not meant to be selfhosted. And it's not federated either.
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Terrible video calls. No screenshare last I checked. UI feels dated.
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No man! Think of the future shareholders!!
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It's not meant to be selfhosted.
https://github.com/revoltchat/self-hosted
it's not federated
I'll agree on that one.
The developer seems very shady
Why?
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And the ui of those are terrible and will never have non technical people adopt them. Also discord has end to end encrypted video calls and screen share which neither of those two have
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Apparently they changed their policy on self-hosting. Last I checked they explicitly said that you can self-host (with a very complicated incomplete documentation) but it's not intended to be self-hosted. He also said various other things that caught my attention but I don't remember the details.
I'll look at this more closely and see whether their policies have changed.
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but it can look similar to discord:
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depending on which client you use, the ui can be very discord-like (this is cinny):
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cinnyapp/cinny-site/main/assets/preview2-light.pngAlso matrix has calls (at least element does), though not sure about screen share. And since when was discord e2e?
I ll admit matrix was for a long time really slow but matrix 2.0 largely solves this and other usability issues. Calls and screen share are still not standardized but its all being worked on. With matrix, its not just about building one app, its about building a decentralized ecosystem all connected by the matrix protocol
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Well well, that surprises me.
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I have no idea what nitro is, maybe its some teitch sub kinda thing. But I have no idea what a twitch sub is, maybe its some kinda battle pass thing? But I don't really understand battle passes either. I miss the days when it was clear what extra features and content you could get for your money.
Anyway what I meant to say is that nitro to me always seemed like some dumb ass microtrabsaction to take money from people with no impulse control so I have ignored it and I have found no change in features. Maybe it affects hosting huge servers but those servers always have some whales paying it already. In my experience it hasn't been an issue in hosting or using discord.
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This only exelerates the enshittification that already started
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I'm just doing a bit of research (I'm also not the guy you were replying to :p), but I found the developer is really just one person seemingly (the only registered person I could find for the company representing Revolt [based in the UK]) and that is Pawel Makles. He's also listed as the data controller of all of your data https://revolt.chat/legal/privacy
My concern at first glance is this guy is only 21 years old (born 2003). I don't think the dev seems too shady from this quick look, but being only 21 with a bunch of private data doesn't seem too stable imo.
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One of the reason people here are so insistent about free and open source software is so that you can enjoy things indefinitely.
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Time to introduce my friends to the glory of TeamSpeak!
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you can run an entire community within a Discord for free
Wonder how long this will last. Bet they are burning angel investors money up to now, going public is the first step towards having to become profitable.
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You can integrate it with Jitsi (also self hosted) and call, screenshare and whatever else you want there.
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They need to add voice rooms like discord/TS/mumble, where they are there in the sidebar and can be joined/left instantly.
Real-time game streaming like discord has is important also to get disord users to switch over.
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As we all know, UI is a fundamental part of any piece of software's architecture and cannot be changed without a ground-up rewrite.
