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Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade (www.neowin.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I don't think people on this sub use it, but it's great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.

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[–] 30 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

revolt.chat is pretty good. It's open source as well. The interface is exactly the same as Discord. And best of all, you don't need nitro to have a gif background or profile picture. Markdown is also supported in the profile description so you can have very fancy descs.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I didn't get past the sign in page because I was having too much fun looking at all of the localization options for their website.

    The default is "🇺🇸 English (Simplified)", but they have "☠️Pirate", "Toki Pona", "🥹Bottom", "😸OwO", "🪄 Enchantment Table", and many other funny options.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Last I checked it didn't have voice chat and just ran in a imbedded webpage

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    the Voice Server Backend is basically done, currently there's ongoing re-works of the desktop client (limited demo at https://revolt.chat/app IIRC), as well as closed betas for iOS and Android native apps.

    There's also a slew of Third-Party Clients and an open Client-Server API.

    Just remember that this project is built by people in their free time, not a VC-Backed company.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I'll keep an eye on this. I use discord exclusively for gaming purposes, and voice chat is pretty important for that bc I'm still on console mostly for the next year or so (building a pc finally, thanks to a new job). So if they can get that going, I could convince several people to switch once I'm also on PC. Till then discord for my PS5 is about the best I can hope for.

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