And the ad is like my dead mom selling me dick pills

Unfortunately, the official desktop app is essentially unusable.

Fractal is pretty good but less features.

Well they changed CEOs a month ago

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

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.

Does it even have push to mute with a keybind? It feels like their voice/video chat is super feature bare lol

The end is coming

New CEO came from Activision

It's over

Yikes, hope matrix really improves soon.

The bigger servers i am in always have someone "boosting" it.

We've never reached levels of Joever this high and Biden stopped being President in January, so you know its bad.

enshittification is a part of capitalism, but capitalism also has other things going on

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

Matrix 2.0 is class they just need to get spaces support

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.

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.

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.

I swear they are soulless NPCs put on this earth by demons to torture us.

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.