Revolt, a new privacy-friendly OPEN SOURCE messaging app. - Thoughts?

  • torgoat
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    3 years ago

    Literally just discord with a commitment to privacy - which isn’t worth very much until they implement encryption.

    Lots of branding, with no clear features to set it apart.

    Perhaps one of the alpha users can convince me otherwise. Why does this need to be it’s own product instead of just contributing to Matrix? Matrix bridges to everything already and has essentially the same mandate (with the bonus of federation.)

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    3 years ago

    This really needs a comparison chart. Also I really wish they just made a Matrix client instead of starting their own protocol. They claim that they will implement a Matrix bridge but that seems like a lot of effort compared to just using Matrix.

    And most importantly. I want security information. Is this end-to-end encrypted?

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    It has no license? They say its open source and you can create your own client but, I don’t see any license, which means they have all rights reserved and the code isn’t free.

    Maybe I didnt look hard enough but it should be pretty clear what license it’s under. Seems kinda sketchy.

    Edit: It seems some of the projects have a license, but not the server.

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    3 years ago

    It looks promising! Thanks for sharing, I’m going to take a look at it.

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    3 years ago

    my vote is for rocket.chat as self hosted solution.

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    3 years ago

    News:

    They confirmed, that you will can self host it too, and will be end-to-end encrypted!