Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing

asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Matrix and XMPP are decentralized, much better than Revolt for that purpose.

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  • xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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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    • notanapple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      depending on which client you use, the ui can be very discord-like (this is cinny): raw.githubusercontent.com/…/preview2-light.png

      Also 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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      • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        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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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You can integrate it with Jitsi (also self hosted) and call, screenshare and whatever else you want there.

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    • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Matrix does not support custom emojis, which are the killer feature of Discord.

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    • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      [Buy Turbo to unlock on all servers]

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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Terrible video calls. No screenshare last I checked. UI feels dated.

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  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They are undoubtedly better, but neither of them feel like Discord. They are more like WhatsApp or Signal.

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    • notanapple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      but it can look similar to discord: raw.githubusercontent.com/…/preview2-light.png

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      • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well well, that surprises me.

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• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  you were right

  it is basically discord

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You can customize all that with your own color scheme you get to chose. Which is kinda cool

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• doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s not meant to be selfhosted. And it’s not federated either.

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  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s not meant to be selfhosted.

    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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    • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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 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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    • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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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• Shameless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No man! Think of the future shareholders!! 😢

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