Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by cassonmars on Monday September 06, 2021 @02:40PM (#28436657)

Also working on a Discord alternative, albeit my project is a decentralized version — neat to see the space has traction. One thing I couldn’t quickly surmise: it looks like your services are centralized and neither servers/spaces (whatever terminology you’re using for logical groupings of communities) nor DMs have support for encryption. Do you have plans to support this? I don’t mean to ask this as a FUD spreader, I just am curious how you differentiate from Discord aside from being open source, and similarly, how you intend to ensure your offering stays open source in perpetuity?

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by Zomatree on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:55PM (#28438019)

Hi, one of the revolt developers here, we plan to have e2ee on DMs.

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by fragileone on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @08:58AM (#28444166)

Any reason why you think groups shouldn't be able to have private chats?

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by Zomatree on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @03:04PM (#28448568)

Group DMs will be encrypted as well

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by iruoy on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:42AM (#28443504)

Are group chats going to be encrypted aswell?

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by Zomatree on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @03:04PM (#28448570)

Group DMs will be encrypted as well

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by antcas on Monday September 06, 2021 @05:08PM (#28438132)

Do you have a link to your project or a way to follow your progress? I'm interested in decentralized community platforms.

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by schmorptron on Monday September 06, 2021 @05:47PM (#28438475)

I was curious too, on their profile it says "Howler", so I'd assume it's this? https://github.com/HowlerChat/Howler

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by cassonmars on Monday September 06, 2021 @09:43PM (#28439950)

Correct — I suspended development on the repository a few weeks ago to switch from launching centralized and federated initially to going fully decentralized at the start of the public beta. I’m taking the time to work on an extension to double ratchet to extend to group conversations but avoid a painful group ECDH key rotation scheme or take on integrity compromises like with megolm.

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by Yoric on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @11:19AM (#28445917)

Any reason to not use the Matrix protocol underneath?

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by olah_1 on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:35PM (#28437125)

Is it that "Howler chat" app? Is it usable today?

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by napworth on Monday September 06, 2021 @06:34PM (#28438874)

What's your plan for keeping Nazi's off the system?

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