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    132 months ago

    https://reddthat.com/post/37286760

    I like Revolt better because it’s actually designed to replace Discord. Matrix isn’t designed to be Discord, and that’s a problem, because what I want is FOSS Discord. Matrix doesn’t bring any novel features that make me want it more than FOSS Discord.

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      I do agree that Matrix isn’t a good replacement for Discord, but Revolt is largely centralized, so I have my doubt’s about it as well. If users started to switch to it, how would the primary instance handle that level of traffic?

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        If users started to switch to it, how would the primary instance handle that level of traffic?

        They can’t. Not without enshittification and monetization. But I suspect that that is their goal. They have no interest in federation, not even on the future roadmap. The developer also stated elsewhere that he won’t support self-hosting officially, and it only became a thing after long back and forth in the community. I already know where that project will go and I don’t like it.

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          If Discord were on GitHub with a GNU licence, Revolt wouldn’t need to spend all this time re-inventing the wheel.

          If Revolt enshittifies, the next replacement won’t need to spend time re-inventing the wheel.

          Even in the worst case scenario, this is a step in the right direction. And I’m not convinced of your worst case scenario.