• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    Hopefully Revolt (a Fediverse alternative to Discord) continues to improve and can completely take the place of Discord relatively soon.

    Edit: it might only be FOSS, not federated. Still a promising project though.

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      I don’t think Revolt is Fediverse, afaik it’s entirely centralized without plans for interop or federation
      Please update me if I just didn’t find the right reference

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        You’re correct.

        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)
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      I’m open to using non-federated software. I think federation is cool and useful but I don’t see it as necessary in any way when choosing what to use.

      The biggest things are features, existing username, and/or ease of getting my friends on it. User base size is why I didn’t use Mastodon for niche hobbies of mine.

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      I’ll check it out! Even without being federated, it’s good to have a discord alternative. Matrix hasn’t been what I need yet, unfortunately.

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      Afaik it’s a fork / copy of the actual Discord source code. With all its bugs