This seems like a cool project. I especially love the UI’s similarity to Discord, but it still has a long road ahead to be a viable chat platform IMO.

I’ve been periodically checking in with Revolt Stoat for about a year now, and personally, the two things that I’m waiting for are:

1. Voice chat - It seems like this is coming, but they had to clean up a bunch or tech debt first
2. Federation - Self-hosted chat is great, but not being able to talk to other servers is incredibly limiting for a social tool. AFAIK they’re not planning on implementing this. This is likely a deal-breaker for a lot of folks.

I’m currently running Matrix synapse, and while matrix is kinda a messy ecosystem, it’s really hard to compete with its maturity and adoption in the FOSS / Self-Hosted space.

Also, not super important, but this blog post reads like it’s AI generated.

Smells like desperation. Still struggling to find a sustainable business model are we?

Yeah, way too many services have chats. I think it’s because every large platform wants to be an “everything app”. Messaging is a really easy to feature to implement to (theoretically) add value.

How about: “You probably should trust or use X at all… ever.”

They keep your private key on their servers.

Then it’s literally not even E2EE, lol

Import our Postman library. ❌
Clone our curl repo. ✅

double grins in self-hosted Fedi instances

lol yeah I definitely have more downtime than AWS.

The main differences are:

1. I usually control when that downtime is.
2. I can inform literally every single person that uses it exactly what is down, why, and approximately for how long.

I can hear the smug grins on homelabber’s/self-hoster’s faces from here.

How could we tell you about an IP inside your own network? Look at the host using that IP and see what’s running on it.

🫠

It’s like that Futurama “Scary Door” bit where the scientist creates a robot to automate everything in his life and gets shocked when the robot gets all the credit: https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/The_Scary_Door#Episode_7,_featured_in_the_Futurama_episode_“Benderama”

I love seasonal events in games, I hope the trend continues.

It’s the best surprise in offline (esp older) games that don’t even get updates anymore still have pre-programmed seasonal events because they read your system clock.

There’s no way that’s true.

Right, that’s more accurate.

This is not slop, this is political misinformation disinformation. Call it what it is.

Slop is annoying, but it’s just AI generated spam. This is much more purposeful and insidious. The tools you used to make it are irrelevant.

Yes, which is good, but the lack of federation is a deal-breaker. It means that you either:

1. Use their servers - This requires entrusting them with your communities, just like Discord.
2. Host your own private instance - You can control it, but the lack of federation means it’ll be isolated from communicating with other communities. This makes it really difficult to convince people to use your self-hosted servers.

Until Revolt adds a way for different instances to federate, Matrix is really the only other option.

Potential names:

• FOSS Fighters
• Open Tournament
• Libre Brawl (Or some combination of these)

I think is best to start with common archetypes (think DnD classes) and make movesets that feel right within those stereotypes. That should make a good starting point and you can tweak from there.