• RosalynKirk@kbin.social
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      What’s to stop Revolt from becoming the next Discord?

      Edit: I just logged into my account to see that Revolt had removed a “server” for breaking foreign (unjust) laws. That seems to go against everything the fediverse stands for.

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        @RosalynKirk

        1.) because Revolt isn’t trying to do federation. It’s community driven open-source project not backed by a company.

        2.) you can easily self-host a Revolt server. Then you can make your own rules.

        Not everything has to be federated

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          …is Discord trying to do federation? I’m confused.

          Someone is in charge of Revolt, doesn’t matter if it’s a company or someone else. Someone is in charge of the servers. What’s stopping them from ultimately selling the company? Reddit didn’t start out as a corporation. Nor did WhatsApp, but after creating a trusted userbase they were sold off to Facebook to be exploited for data.

          IT people love to talk about how “easy” it is to create and run your own server, but this is simply not true and they just lack awareness.

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        How can revolt “remove” a server since you can connect to any custom hosted server? It’s like saying lemmy removed an instance.

        And besides, I’m pretty sure that is something that federated instances will have to worry about too, you might not care about your local laws but the ISP or hosting provider of your server where possibly illegal data is, will care.

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          No it isn’t. The default is to be hosted on Revolt servers. I created a “server” and I didn’t set up any kind of server, so it’s not running on my server. I don’t really know all the technical details, I just signed in and saw a message that said the “server” was removed.

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            Ah I see, so kinda like having a community on kbin.social removed. I mean that makes sense then, the admin and owner of the server can decide if he doesn’t want something there, its his server (or in this case, revolts)