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.

  • nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    A couple years ago when I was preparing for a possible future exodus from Discord, I tried to self-host a Revolt instance, but I found that it was lacking in some important features, and there was some internal drama going on about licensing. I don’t know the specifics, but it felt messy at the time and I ended up just hosting a Matrix instance instead. I haven’t seen what it’s like these days.

  • femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I am trying to self host stoatchat, formally revoltchat but it is a pain to setup in docker. Also self hosting it and trying to run the clients to connect is not intuitive for users.

    I do have another chat running after only 2 hours besides the voicechat, I still need to work on that side. Maybe this weekend.

    https://github.com/hackthedev/dcts-shipping

    Downside is the Linux client is a little tricky for me to get running as they only supply an app image and getting it to run and save it’s config is not working right but that may just be my issue never running app images before.

  • Void98@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    It’s now called Stoat Chat due to copyright reasons. It doesn’t have as poverful server management as DC or bots but a solid option if you can get your frineds to use it. I think you are thinking of the wrong thing regarding servers, you don’t need any hardware for one it’s like discord, the server exsists on the service servers. It’s like you just create one and use it for free. VC should be fine nowdays idk about screensharing never tested it but it should work. It is easier than DC due to it having less features.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      It can be self hosted, but to connect the clients to self-hosted servers you have to edit config files, so it’s a very user hostile solution.

        • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          20 minutes ago

          No, as in the person installing the app to use the service has to edit a config file.

          Yes, I have no issue editing config files. I’m self-hosting, that’s the point. All the technical load should be on me. But my completely non-technical friends should not have to edit config files to be able to access my self-hosted services. Everything, for them, should be as simple as possible.

    • jrgd@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      6 hours ago

      Video capabilities aren’t currently enabled on the main instance. According to commenters in the meta issue, it is (mostly?) implemented and if you are selfhosting a Stoat server instance, you can enable it for that instance.

  • dogs0n@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    7 hours ago

    I have no thoughts, but Matrix isn’t only text based.

    You should of course try different clients first to see if it’s viable, I don’t know if it’s gotten good yet.

    Voice chat should work quite well now though, I think.

    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      10·
      6 hours ago

      Video and voice chat with matrix works well once it’s set up. I… Struggled a bit setting it up, and I don’t think I’m the exception.

      Haven’t tried screen sharing yet.

    • olivier@lemmy.fait.chEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      Be careful of rocketchat : beside some exotic technology choices (meteor), they seem to be in a dynamic of re-closing previously opensource parts of it. Something like that already occured with their ldap implementation (it needed some love, but sadly they give them closed-source love…)