Revolt
revolt.chat
Find your community, connect with the world. The chat platform that puts you first.

So far I really like it, anyone else using it? I’m really considering setting up the discord bridge and just using revolt

  • whale@lemm.ee
    252·
    11 months ago

    Revolt and Matrix are rather similar. Personally, I would recommend Matrix because it has the slight edge of offering room message content encryption, should you choose to use it. If you don’t… At that point, it’s kind of a toss-up, honestly.

    Advantages of Revolt:

    • Situated themselves to roll out features more rapidly
    • Closer interface to Discord
    • If you delete a message on their server, your deletion journey is done

    Advantages of Matrix:

    • You can encrypt the content of the messages in rooms
    • They don’t have to be situated on a single server; in fact, they can be shared among many servers
    • Data is not relegated to a single server, and can persist even if that server shuts itself down or is shut down
    • splendoruranium@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Most important to me: Which of them is easier to self-host?

      I’ve been running a Mumble server for my friends for over a decade now and I’d like… something more without having to get too technical. Mumble is literally just a single apt-get and you’re basically done, so that’s about the level of technical expertise that I bring to the table. I’ve tentatively looked into other solutions over the years but I always feel my attention drifting when the setup-tutorial covers multiple pages and starts with manually configuring some database or certificate authority or whatever. Sorry, I didn’t mean for this to get too ranty.

      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
        2·
        11 months ago

        I settled on XMPP for general chat. Very easy to set up, doesn’t eat much resources. I did think about trying Matrix, but I am afraid it would eat up too much resources, especially disk space.

      • whale@lemm.ee
        2·
        11 months ago

        Matrix was a real bear, but it was more difficult to get federation working than to get the server itself functional. In addition, there are a couple areas where you must make a choice correctly the first time.

        I’ve never tried to host Revolt but I’m guessing it shouldn’t be any harder.