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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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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What makes you think Movim is a "hosted service"? You can easily self-host it and many people do: https://github.com/movim/movim

The developers of Movim are also hosting a public instance, yes, but the official on-boarding page lists it as only one among many others. A bit like how the Lemmy devs also host an instance.

Revolt/Stout on the other hand is rather a "hosted service", as they are openly discouraging people to self-host it and make it intentionally harder to do so.

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

The website and marketing!
I think perhaps they are leaning into their own brand and hiding the underlying parts a bit too hard... Now that I look at their GH this might ironically be exactly what I was searching for before and would recommend someone to try, but it didnt rank at all for my searches.

Thanks for setting the record straight. I will have to look closer at Movim again.