Revolt: An Open-Source Alternative to Discord - It's FOSS
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Revolt is a promising free and open-source choice to replace Discord. Here, we take a look at what it offers along with its initial impressions.
  • Helix 🧬
    2•3 years ago

    I guess very few people self-host their email or Matrix or XMPP.

    You don’t need to self host email, Matrix or XMPP to use E2EE. I meant self hosting the web clients.

    And it still doesn’t protect you against someone breaking the TLS connection between you and your server.

    HSTS, Certificate Pinning, …

    Every communication method suffers from this, it’s not exclusive to web-based communication.

    proprietary, windows only apps are not generally designed with security as the number 1 concern

    Yeah, Open Source software down to the OS itself is important for security. But even then, who audits their own software? It’s probably 0.01% of the 0.01% of the general population you mentioned.

      • Helix 🧬
        1•3 years ago

        That’s why you stick to software under high scrutiny and highly visible for security sensible stuff

        So, like Element? scnr