In general, while it makes for convenience for end-users, I’m just not interested in hitching my buggy to another “single point” social media platform.
I already have a Discord account, I don’t really need to sign up for a Discord clone based on a “Trust me Bro” sort of guarantee that they won’t enshittify it in the future. Because nothing really stops the Revolt developers (and I’m not trying to imply any evil intentions, or even plans on their part) from deciding to accept VC money, or just sell the whole thing outright to $corporation_with_a_dumptruck_full_of_cash, and there’s not a thing that a User can do about it.
It’s entirely possible that with Matrix, that an individual matrix server administrator (lets call it matrix.foo.bar) could get up to shenanigans, but as it’s a federated chat protocol by design, I’m free to take my custom elsewhere (matrix.bar.foo), and basically have the same access to all the things I did before. There is no single point of control, or failure for somebody to break, or sell.
Matrix’s Code of Conduct says that they will not act on CoC violations that they find ideologically congenial. That’s a blank check for harassment, and it applies to every forum which might be used for technical coordination around Matrix.
supports bridges
Does that mean I can use a Matrix client and transparently joking a Discord server and speak with my friends?
Revolt is fairly young in comparison to Matrix. A lot of features including E2EE will be implemented in the future. Also, Revolt actually does have bridges and an ecosystem of WIP third-party clients as well.
I’ve gotta say - I’ve been a drone for the past few years. In the past I’ve been really switched on for new privacy tech and ways to build my own network of my own data, but then in 2018 there was an accessibility explosion and for some reason I just stopped.
So to be getting back into the game as a result of Reddits’ collapse and to see places like kbin/lemmy/mastodon thriving, then to see that Discord has a more decentralised competitor in matrix.org technologies and all of the clients being spawned off it. It… it just makes me feel good to be here again. Thanks for waiting for me.
I have an account there for a long time now, and I really like it
Of all the platforms in the middle of all these drama, I hate discord the most and I hope they burn
I’m honestly surprised how quickly discord has gone to shit vs. how long everyone I know was using stuff like Skype and TS beforehand.
I also hate how people try to use discord as a replacement for more traditional forums (including stuff like Reddit and kbin) instead of as just a chat and messaging platform. It sucks at it, please stop trying to make it work for that people.
This is my biggest complaint as well, Discord is TERRIBLE for searching for informational posts and replies. Yet people constantly try and use it for that. Every time I see a “visit our discord!” When I’m just wanting to search a forum, I groan and just close the site. I cannot wait for Discord to die off.
I despise subreddits who say “we are moving to discord”. The two platforms are nothing alike and never will be
