So...this one is a bit left-of-field.
A friend of mine (Gardiner Bryant of YouTube - who reports on Linux and the Steam Deck) has started a Revolt server.
What is Revolt?
It's kinda like a FOSS alternative to Discord. You'll see the layout is almost a direct copy, and it's far less polished...but then again you haven't got the downsides of Discord's constant upselling either:
Why is this relevant?
...I can hear you ask? Well, so far its just a few developers and creators in there, but I thought of all spaces...maybe those very devs and creators whose work you use and watch...well it might be nice to join in there?
My personal friends who are in here so far are:
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imLinguin whose GitHub is here - but you may know most as a developer of Heroic Games Launcher
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Eben Bruyns whose GitHub is here - but you may know best as the dev of Junk-Store
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Gardiner himself, of course whose YouTube link is here,
What is the damn link to the damn server, woman?
I mean, you will have to make an account on Revolt, but it might be interesting to some here. You're all very welcome! <3
I really want revolt to succeed due to Discords horrendous gate keeping and privacy issues.
I convinced a few friends to use Revolt but it’s in a bit of a feature lull. You can’t ring folks when you make a call, our calls often dropped without any indication (and required reopening to fix), and the input/output constantly had issues with selection. This doesn’t include a myriad of other smaller bugs I encountered. These were all the same bugs and UX issues I encountered in 2023 when I tried it then.
Gonna keep an eye on it and keep using it but I’m hoping with Discords enshittification more devs will be able to contribute.