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what practical alternatives are out there? every gaming and streaming community seems to use discord, but i hate it on the basis of it being an enshittified, proprietary walled garden.
https://stoat.chat/ is fully just discord but FOSS
Edit:their GitHub page
This will not take off until their native apps release and support self hosted rooms.
Is this the 3rd name change? or the 2nd?
The first. They've only changed name once.
Cause Revolut BANK sued their ass
Revolt != Revolut
Silly lawyers
Ahh interesting, thanks for the learning
None. Closest is Matrix, and it sucks for that purpose because it's more like Slack.