So…this one is a bit left-of-field.

A friend of mine (Gardiner Bryant of YouTube - who reports on Linux and the Steam Deck) has started a Revolt server.

What is Revolt?

It’s kinda like a FOSS alternative to Discord. You’ll see the layout is almost a direct copy, and it’s far less polished…but then again you haven’t got the downsides of Discord’s constant upselling either:

https://revolt.chat/

Why is this relevant?

…I can hear you ask? Well, so far its just a few developers and creators in there, but I thought of all spaces…maybe those very devs and creators whose work you use and watch…well it might be nice to join in there?

My personal friends who are in here so far are:

What is the damn link to the damn server, woman?

https://rvlt.gg/dqJT3rJH

I mean, you will have to make an account on Revolt, but it might be interesting to some here. You’re all very welcome! <3

  • shadowplayer2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I really want revolt to succeed due to Discords horrendous gate keeping and privacy issues.

    I convinced a few friends to use Revolt but it’s in a bit of a feature lull. You can’t ring folks when you make a call, our calls often dropped without any indication (and required reopening to fix), and the input/output constantly had issues with selection. This doesn’t include a myriad of other smaller bugs I encountered. These were all the same bugs and UX issues I encountered in 2023 when I tried it then.

    Gonna keep an eye on it and keep using it but I’m hoping with Discords enshittification more devs will be able to contribute.

    • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      13·
      1 month ago

      I’ve seen the same.

      And I can’t claim any ownership of this, this is purely Gardiner’s server! I just…happen to know a lot of the devs and creators in the space, and I’m slowly inviting them in because - well I guess a place like this, more focused and small where we can chat about what we love: developing for Linux, and gaming on Linux might be a nice thing!

      I’d just encourage you to make a throwaway account (if you’re so inclined!) and ask in the server yourself! No one can answer better than Gardiner can :)

      This is literally like…idk 2 hours old at this point. No ‘big’ posts have been made, just me prodding the odd folk (like here) to join in and see if they like it :)