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With discord planning to show ads, how can the fediverse/lemmy benefit from another proprietary program making itself worse? (Like it was with reddit) (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?

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[-] NataliaTheDrowned2@kbin.run 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If anybody wants to build a federated Discord alternative, my suggestions:

Fork Revolt
Implement AP federation and encryption from Sup server and client

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 5 months ago

Revolt is so promising, except it's not federated. I tried spinning it up today and then realized it's local only...

Which then even on their main page they have a pleading asking us to not host instances because the base will become fractured. Which, is solved by federation.

[-] known@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

They have a page about federation, in which they explain why they haven’t implemented federation yet.

In short: privacy concerns (e.g. metadata leakage), lack of devs / manpower & resources, difficulty adapting Revolts protocol to a federated one.

I like the project. I think it would be the perfect place for Foss Projects and a good replacement for Discord, but it is in dire need of more contributors and ppl, who know how to properly integrate Federation. I’d love to see Revolt succeed.

Currently I am short on time, but I’d love to contribute to them in the future.