Yesterday I came across a thread where people were asking about Discord alternatives and there it was - glorious Revolt which looks great. Now Iam wondering if we as a community could / should create an Revolut server where we can discuss stuff in real-time. Maybe even coordinate movement of European goods from one country to another - for example I’ve seen demand for a Kofola in next-door countries like Germany which could be easily faciliated. Also I could vice versa use import of products from other countries into small-shops where I know owners. What’s your thought ?

  • drspod@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Because federation is a pre-emptive defense against corporate capture and enshittification.

    Revolt may be open source but they are still a company that could sell out, at which point you have the enormous switching costs of trying to move communities to a fork or a new service. We’ve seen how well that goes with every other social media platform migration.

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      1 day ago

      Good point. Even Mozilla is changing their ways these days.

      I wish there was a software exactly like Discord but federated.

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        18 hours ago

        irc is. but sadly it misses all the modern stuff :(