Wait when I tested revolt a few months ago they definitely had voice channels - was that a beta feature?
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Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 3 days agoAh! If you have never heard of it I can tell you: it’s the foss, self-hostable equivalent of Discord. Except we are still waiting for the voice channels.
papertowels@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Yes it needs extra steps if you are selfhosting and is not supported in the third party app clerotri for example. It seemed an hassle enough that I did not try it on my selfhosted instance.
papertowels@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Gotcha that does match my impression.
You’re right though, there’s value in it being a drop-in replacement for discord. Along those lines, I’m very excited for cinny, a matrix discord-like frontend. There’s a PR for voice calls that I check every now and then, the moment that goes in I’ll be trying to convince my friends to hop over.
null@piefed.nullspace.lol 2 days ago
Why not any of the other Matrix clients? I’ve got some friends on Element with some bridges and it’s pretty much perfect.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If there’s no voice channels, then why reinvent IRC?
ayyo@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Compared to some other alternatives, I think the thing it really has going for it is how simple it is. It’s really a drop in replacement, something I actually think maybe my friends that don’t really care about Foss would consider switching to. They’ve told me they don’t want to take the time to learn a new messaging software, I don’t think they’d have to with this.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
There’s a wide gap of stuff one can do between IRC and “chat with voice channels”. For example, having a better protocol with better formatting options, a moderation API, better account management, other forms of multimedia (page embeds, images).
Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 days ago
Syntax highlighting for code blocks is the reason I prefer discord over slack for collaborating and just chatting with friends who know how to code. I imagine some irc clients exist that so the same, but at least with discord I know my recipient is guaranteed to see what I see.