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Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

What's to stop Revolt from becoming the next Discord?

Edit: I just logged into my account to see that Revolt had removed a "server" for breaking foreign (unjust) laws. That seems to go against everything the fediverse stands for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

How can revolt "remove" a server since you can connect to any custom hosted server? It's like saying lemmy removed an instance.

And besides, I'm pretty sure that is something that federated instances will have to worry about too, you might not care about your local laws but the ISP or hosting provider of your server where possibly illegal data is, will care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If this is an isolated issue I don't mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@RosalynKirk

1.) because Revolt isn't trying to do federation. It's community driven open-source project not backed by a company.

2.) you can easily self-host a Revolt server. Then you can make your own rules.

Not everything has to be federated

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

...is Discord trying to do federation? I'm confused.

Someone is in charge of Revolt, doesn't matter if it's a company or someone else. Someone is in charge of the servers. What's stopping them from ultimately selling the company? Reddit didn't start out as a corporation. Nor did WhatsApp, but after creating a trusted userbase they were sold off to Facebook to be exploited for data.

IT people love to talk about how "easy" it is to create and run your own server, but this is simply not true and they just lack awareness.