Revolt
Revolt is a brand new chat platform designed around you.
- Free • Open Source
- Group Chat App
- Video Calling App
- Instant Messenger
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- Rust
- Flathub
What is Revolt ?
Communication is critical. Privacy is essential.
Simple, just how you like it. Revolt is built on the same technologies as other popular chat applications, so there won’t be any need to re-learn on how to use it. Also, you can customize it to your heart’s content.
Open source to the public. We believe that there’s more to it than just code. By having the Revolt project open source means that we can create a transparent layer between us and the user. Contribute, create your own bot or make your own version of the Revolt client.
Available everywhere. From desktop to mobile, the Revolt app is available wherever you are, so you can chat, call or get in a video call, even if you're not in front of your computer.
Your data should be yours, not ours. Privacy has become a major concern over the past few years, and we wanted to take action by building a privacy-safe, open source chat platform without any data aggregation.
Revolt Screenshots
Revolt Features
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Social & Communications
- Group Chat
If you are looking into a discord alternative I personally prefer this one over element and others alike because this project seems to be moving in a direction that is focused on “gaming-adjacent” communities. So if the project doesn’t stop being developed (and even if it does it will probably be forked) it may one day replace Discord.
It doesn't require you to pay for features that discord nitro offers.
Enumerating such features would be useful instead of taking for granted stating something that is only obvious for you.
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The app is buggy , the community is toxic and the voice chat doesn't even work. The owners of the app will platform-ban your account just because they dislike you. I don't recommend discord either , just stop using these kind of shitty apps and go touch grass.
agree that their only community that they currently have is incredibly toxic and that the owners are twats, but this still can be useful to whoever can self host it...
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If you get platform banned it’s highly unlikely it’s just because they “don’t like you”. You probably did or said something stupid. Almost all the “main” devs are in a university studying and doing classes, they would rather post out-dated among us memes than platform-ban you because “they dislike you”. You probably said/did something and even more likely did it on multiple servers or kept making new accounts to repeatedly do the same offense. At least from what I have seen even if you say some bigotry level stuff they will ban you on the “main” server because it’s against the rules, but you can go to another or make your own. The only platform bans I have witnessed sorta, are the ones where they got reported multiple times by different users of some devious deads they were doing. There also is no technical “app”. As far as I know I’m pretty sure nothing native has been developed. Native apps are being developed, but you could also instead of complaining find out a way to help/contribute as the project is FOSS.
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It feels nice enough, but their Android & iOS apps are just a PWA web wrapper right now; which can be essential for a communication app. I don't trust that a PWA client on a mobile phone would handle & scale well once your server got large with hundreds of images, videos, and gifs in each channel like on Discord.
It also doesn't show a persistent in-call control in notification while using other apps - which is a basic & may indicate that calls doesn't work well in background.
Other comments about toxic community & ban-happy admins are also highly worrying; you can choose to just stay inside your own servers and avoid the centralized Public Server Directory, and I can confirm that most servers listed there are advertised as belonging to some certain types, but the real issue is that if their moderation are as terrible as Discord's with things like server-wide nukebans then it's not a good sign.
the best alternative to discord
Horrible community furries , lgbt ,etc
Because of us ????? Then we don't want you hun.
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What it is, works great, but it is no discord alternative - there is no video, at all. No video chat, no screen sharing.