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Anyone using Revolt? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 days ago by exposable_preview@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Anyone using Revolt as a Discord alternative? What has your experience with it been? Do the voice chats work reliably? What about screen sharing? Is it easy to use? What hardware do you host it on? What about moving people over from Discord to Revolt?

I'm considering buying some.more solid self hosting hardware at some point and considering hosting a Revolt server for friends and a community that we're moderating.

Other software recomendations are also welcome, but keep in mind that voice chats and screen sharing are features that we very often use, so something that's primarily text-based like matrix won't work.

I'd also like to hear your thoughts on converting people to non-mainstream software. I'd expect it to not work so smoothly, since discord is such a go-to platform for so many people and most of them follow multiple communities on there. The convenience aspect is a big thing.

Please share whatever thoughts you have on this topic.

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[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have no thoughts, but Matrix isn't only text based.

You should of course try different clients first to see if it's viable, I don't know if it's gotten good yet.

Voice chat should work quite well now though, I think.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Video and voice chat with matrix works well once it's set up. I... Struggled a bit setting it up, and I don't think I'm the exception.

Haven't tried screen sharing yet.

[–] kumi@feddit.online 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Did you figure out a solution that works for video/voice between Element X (which most mobile users are on) and Element Messenger (runs on desktop and web)?

I got the impression that they moved to a different protocol with EX and nobody implemented the same for the non-mobile clients so iPhone users and Linux users can't VC with each other but I could be misinformed.

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 1 points 1 day ago

element calls work in the desktop clients now but you gotta click the video call button even for voice calls to see the option 🫣