Just found Revolt: FOSS Discord Alternative https://revolt.chat/ and I'm impressed! Heavy Discord users may still depend on it, but alternatives are always great to have. #Revolt #DiscordAlternative

@Thomas_domville @alexhall Discord's splitting things into channels was almost certainly inspired by IRC, a much older and simpler but more versatile (and open source!) chat platform, where you can easily just create (and also easily leave if you're done with them) channels, which act as chat rooms. (Though Discord is somewhat different in that it treats channels by default as established infrastructure in a community (and essentially autojoins everyone to channels) while on IRC channels are unregistered by default, so channels are more flexible on IRC.)

For more in-depth sit-down conversations, yeah I agree that i also appreciate the reply threading that platforms like Mastodon and Reddit provide. (On Mastodon the threading isn't necessarily obvious, but I think some apps make it more apparent, such as Fedilab.)

As a sidenote I'd like to give a shout-out to some #OpenSource alternatives, especially in light of the problems with Reddit. Obviously there's #IRC, the classic chat platform where you can just join any network any network and start chatting on (mostly) any channel, which can each have its own organization (the way whole Discord servers do). Then there's a couple more #DiscordAlternative platforms: #Matrix, which is federated (though not via ActivityPub), and #Revolt, which is not (but has a *very* Discord-like interface). And then there's the #RedditAlternatives #Lemmy and #Kbin, which (for what it's worth) I think have the same style of message threading that Reddit does.

@ente Create a @revoltchat server and bridge between discord and revolt 😎

#opensource #discordalternative
https://revolt.chat/

But why? 😩😂
#revolt #discordalternative #Chatrooms #chat