Oh, this looks great. Honestly, I am very happy when closed-source apps become worse, these are all just opportunities for open source to move in and take over.
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northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
slowly moving myself to revolt.chat.
Its sad since I’ve been with discord since almost '15.
politicalcustard@beehaw.org 2 months ago
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
so this project is open source, which is nice, but still seems to rely on centralized servers. Does it use P2P for voice+video+fileshare so that the original devs aren’t on the hook for insane bandwidth requirements? I can’t see anything about their networking systems in the FAQ or info pages.
I may consider getting my friends to switch sooner or later if it’s more P2P based. But I don’t really want something that runs ALL traffic through central servers, because the bandwidth costs will inevitably just lead to the same situation that Discord is now in.
jarfil@beehaw.org 2 months ago
It’s self-hostable, and they seem to be switching to webrtc, not sure if P2P or not. In 2022, they claimed it was using minimal resources on the server:
developers.revolt.chat/faq/monetisation
They also don’t seem to consider federation as a priority, but then again neither does Discord.
krash@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
What made you choose revolt chat over matrix? Just curious.
Segab@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Oh cool there’s an Android app, that’s gonna make it so much easier to recommend!
jarfil@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Compared to Matrix, or any E2EE chat, this doesn’t sound good:
Compared to Discord, or other established voice chat systems like Mumble, this doesn’t sound great either:
The “app” on Android seems to be just the webapp running in a standalone window.
I’ll concede them the OpenSource and self-hosted factors, but it doesn’t seem like a suitable replacement for average Discord users… then again, the ads might push them over.