Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads
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I'm waiting for the day we get the Black Mirror technology where the ad stops playing when you look away and doesn't start again until you look back at it, forcing you to watch the entire ad all the way through
And the ad is like my dead mom selling me dick pills
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Not as feature rich, quite buggy, inherently more private but also less usable.
The above compounds when trying to get the non-techies to use it, because sometimes it doesn’t just work
Unfortunately, the official desktop app is essentially unusable.
Fractal is pretty good but less features.
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How in the hell has that app gone so far down? This must be a record in enshittification.
Well they changed CEOs a month ago
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I meant for video. The classic coturn connection is fine for voice - though I wish it had push to talk. 🥲
oooo yeah video is the one thing i have missing to have more or less feature parity with discord. wonder if theres gonna be like a coturn video type thing anytime soon
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how good of an alternative is matrix to discord?
Not great. It's missing discord features like screen sharing and voice rooms (only sort of has them through a third party app, Jitsi, but that experience is... not great).
It also has moderation issues, lacking tools needed to keep spam out and easily control it when it does get in.
I recently deleted my account because there was a spam wave sending out room invites to anti-trans named rooms, and there's no way to mass ignore, you have to click on every invite, click 'ignore' and wait like 15-30 seconds for the server to process.
Related to the above it has performance issues, a lot of UI actions wait for the server to respond, so just have a long delay to them making the user experience feel really crummy.
There are also a bunch of different client apps all with their own features, one will support X but not support Y and the other way around for another app, and there's no guide on what app to use so that's confusing.
Overall it feels like alpha or very early beta software, it works if you're willing to deal with a lot of headache.
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God, I just wish they'd add a fucking Push to Talk option to a client... Any client
Does it even have push to mute with a keybind? It feels like their voice/video chat is super feature bare lol
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The end is coming
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Well they changed CEOs a month ago
It's over
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The replacement is matrix.
Yikes, hope matrix really improves soon.
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They truly have zero clue how users actually use their software. Not a single person is going to use this just like every other stupid gimmick feature they've added in the past and then promptly removed.
The bigger servers i am in always have someone "boosting" it.
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We've never reached levels of Joever this high and Biden stopped being President in January, so you know its bad.
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They are the same thing.
enshittification is a part of capitalism, but capitalism also has other things going on
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It is open source. But from what I can tell the accounts are largely still hosted centrally, and it isnt federated in any way, which isn't great. Anybody can host an instance or server.
So ultimately it looks like a massive step up from Discord, with some small issues here and there.
documentation/docs/faq/instances.md at master · revoltchat/documentation
Moved to https://github.com/revoltchat/wiki. Contribute to revoltchat/documentation development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub (github.com)
I believe there was talk of opening it up to the fediverse but not sure where they landed on it
Edit: From the linked FAQ actually
Does Revolt have federation
As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap.
However, this does not necessarily mean federation is off the table, possible avenues are:
- Implement our own federation protocol
- Implement a promising up and coming federation protocol, polyproto
- Implement the Matrix protocol (unlikely, obtuse and unstable)
- Implement the XMPP protocol (battle-tested and stable)
Any federation that is implemented MUST exercise caution in:
- Preventing spam and abuse: moderators should be able to block malicious actors
- Protecting user data: users should be able to redact all of their information and messages
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Yikes, hope matrix really improves soon.
Matrix 2.0 is class they just need to get spaces support
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The replacement is matrix.
Not really. The network is currently undergoing massive attacks of spammers who flood people's servers, rooms and dms with child porn and videos of animals being tortured. Maintaining a public matrix room or homeserver is a nightmare and the Matrix foundation has only now come up with a solution. But these servers are slow to release and many people have been left with no choice but to leave Matrix all together. Discord is a shithole but we need to make sure people are aware that the alternatives have their own set of issues too
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Not really. The network is currently undergoing massive attacks of spammers who flood people's servers, rooms and dms with child porn and videos of animals being tortured. Maintaining a public matrix room or homeserver is a nightmare and the Matrix foundation has only now come up with a solution. But these servers are slow to release and many people have been left with no choice but to leave Matrix all together. Discord is a shithole but we need to make sure people are aware that the alternatives have their own set of issues too
Not had any spammers in my server. To handle that sort of stuff on discord I have a bot that removes messages based on regexs I’ve set and restrict new members from media,urls, etc til they get their first 10 posts in the server.
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Does it even have push to mute with a keybind? It feels like their voice/video chat is super feature bare lol
It doesn't.
It has features for video/voice calling - E.g. Background blurring and stuff like that. It just lacks the stuff that would make it usable for gaming.
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I admittedly haven't looked very hard for an alternative. But I fully expect to be forced to move elsewhere in the next year or two due to their increasingly belligerent chasing of profits.
It feels like literally the entire open source and games communities are on discord. Will they move too? I care about that even more than my DMs.
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Users on reddit and lemmy always seem to think ad-based stuff is going to fail, and then it turns out people in the real world are depressingly accepting of ads. I would bet that this program is more likely to be expanded than canceled.
I swear they are soulless NPCs put on this earth by demons to torture us.
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I warned my friends that Discord is looking to go public. Just wait, it's going to get a lot worse.
I don't know if you saw the news last month but Discord just replaced a founder with a former Activision-Blizzard exec as CEO.
