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Anyone got a recommendation for an open source alternative to discord? Basically just need voice, text, and screen sharing for a group of friends of like, 5-6 at most on at any time.
Even if I gotta pay to host a server, I’d rather do that than pay discord extortion money to avoid ads while still getting my data stolen.
I know it's still in development, but check out Revolt . It's basically Discord, but open source.
i looked into revolt and pretty concerned with these two stances of the project
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like, to me it seems they want to get communities invested and then later monetize in ways those communities don't yet know about?? idk that sounds extremely sus. especially when competing instances will fight against network effects with no federation.
1st. implementing activitypub or any other federation protocol is quite a task. also in my opinion it does not need to be federated. there are basically no benefits, except convenience for the users.
2nd. it's open source. if you don't like the way it's monetized, fork it and make your own. it' not foss.
that's all very fair, i guess i was just hoping federation was at least on a long term roadmap