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Anyone using Revolt? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago by exposable_preview@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Anyone using Revolt as a Discord alternative? What has your experience with it been? Do the voice chats work reliably? What about screen sharing? Is it easy to use? What hardware do you host it on? What about moving people over from Discord to Revolt?

I'm considering buying some.more solid self hosting hardware at some point and considering hosting a Revolt server for friends and a community that we're moderating.

Other software recomendations are also welcome, but keep in mind that voice chats and screen sharing are features that we very often use, so something that's primarily text-based like matrix won't work.

I'd also like to hear your thoughts on converting people to non-mainstream software. I'd expect it to not work so smoothly, since discord is such a go-to platform for so many people and most of them follow multiple communities on there. The convenience aspect is a big thing.

Please share whatever thoughts you have on this topic.

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It can be self hosted, but to connect the clients to self-hosted servers you have to edit config files, so it's a very user hostile solution.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you're self-hosting, editing a config file will be the easiest part.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, as in the person installing the app to use the service has to edit a config file.

Yes, I have no issue editing config files. I'm self-hosting, that's the point. All the technical load should be on me. But my completely non-technical friends should not have to edit config files to be able to access my self-hosted services. Everything, for them, should be as simple as possible.

[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No worries if the answer here is "please go Google it", but I'm curious as to what the end user has to edit?

Do they have to edit your domain into a connections file or some such, or is it more involved? I'd expect a chocolatey package or some form of installer could improve that hugely...

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do they have to edit your domain into a connections file or some such

Pretty much. I don't remember the exact details, but that's close enough for the cat.

[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Okay, thank you!