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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Just Started Using Revolt (Discord Alternative) (revolt.chat)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mossy_capivara@midwest.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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

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[–] mossy_capivara@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doesn't track you like discord does to remain "free"
You audit the code for security and privacy issues
You can self-host or fork the code for yourself if you ever need to build a backup because some idiot decided to purchase the original revolt project and decided to screw with it
It has an open source license so the software can never be privatized, it's essentially a public utility; for everyone by everyone

Our Story:

The Revolt project originally started back in 2019 by a group of three students from the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic, looking for an alternative to the already emerging, closed-source chat platforms. Our main focus for the project was to create an open-source, completely compromise-free platform that offered all of the same features and competed against other chat apps

Revolt is made with collaborative effort, and if you like coding it makes it so if you can to try and code stuff to add custom functionality or plugins or whatever else. Like a public utility you can add to it and develop it communally, though in this case it would be a public utility serving a public with a population of just you. But because of the GPL license Revolt uses, it makes it so that you need to share your changes. Whatever form the source code takes, it remains a public utility until perpetuity.