Comment on Looks like Instagram wants some of Discord's market.

puppinstuff@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d wager another better alternative will come up that’ll be like Discord, get great traction, then go public, then enshitify. The cycle of crap software continues until a FOSS option appears.

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  • SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Trying to get my friends to try anything other than the entrenched option is the issue I have.

    Haven’t tried it but Revolt is the FOSS alternate for discord right?

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    • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      …Revolt is the FOSS alternate for discord right?

      Yes, or for a more limited feature set, Matrix.

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      • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I was about to suggest that as well.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes it’s pretty great except

      1. File size limits on the default instance are 20mb.
      2. Its not federated.

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      • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        1. File size limits on the default instance are 20mb.

        But it’s configurable right? Should be looking through configurations anyway.

        2. Its not federated.

        I’d argue that not everything needs to be federated. Some things would definitely benefit from federation, but I’m not entirely sure that this is one of them.

        3. It’s not encrypted.

        This IS a bit of a major negative. But point 2 and point 3 seems to be in conflict. I’m definitely not an expert, and don’t pretend to be. But to my limited, layman’s, knowledge wouldn’t being federated and encrypted not really work out? What would be the point in encrypting all communication between the server instance and client, to then federate it out to other servers?

        I’m not trying to be contrarian here, I’m really asking, is that something that would:

        1. Work.
        2. Makes sense to do

        Or is the lack of encryption a security risk for server operators? I’m not getting the point, obviously. And I’d like to know what your thinking on this is.

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