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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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[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's now known as Stoat Chat, because the name was changed after a scandal erupted within the Stoat community. My producer is one of a handful of people who are persona-non-Grata in the main instance. In his case, it was for supposed antisemitism (when he's Jewish himself), truthing, and recommending scientifically-backed things in moderation.