i actually don’t know any of the three well, feature-wise. i have only tried discord and element in the past, but i don’t follow any of these chat based communities these days
both being open source, Revolt AFAIK has its own platform/protocol, so Revolt clients will talk with other Revolt clients
Matrix is not a client, or ‘app’, it’s a protocol, like ActivityPub (that Lemmy uses). these are used by different apps to communicate. for ex. to use Matrix you can either use Element, Cinny, Syphon, etc. and they will all talk with each other, even if each one of them has its own features/UI
Doesn’t track you like discord does to remain “free”
You audit the code for security and privacy issues
You can self-host or fork the code for yourself if you ever need to build a backup because some idiot decided to purchase the original revolt project and decided to screw with it
It has an open source license so the software can never be privatized, it’s essentially a public utility; for everyone by everyone
Our Story:
The Revolt project originally started back in 2019 by a group of three students from the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic, looking for an alternative to the already emerging, closed-source chat platforms. Our main focus for the project was to create an open-source, completely compromise-free platform that offered all of the same features and competed against other chat apps
Revolt is made with collaborative effort, and if you like coding it makes it so if you can to try and code stuff to add custom functionality or plugins or whatever else. Like a public utility you can add to it and develop it communally, though in this case it would be a public utility serving a public with a population of just you. But because of the GPL license Revolt uses, it makes it so that you need to share your changes. Whatever form the source code takes, it remains a public utility until perpetuity.
How is it different from discord?
way different, it’s open source
How is it different from Matrix?
i actually don’t know any of the three well, feature-wise. i have only tried discord and element in the past, but i don’t follow any of these chat based communities these days
both being open source, Revolt AFAIK has its own platform/protocol, so Revolt clients will talk with other Revolt clients
Matrix is not a client, or ‘app’, it’s a protocol, like ActivityPub (that Lemmy uses). these are used by different apps to communicate. for ex. to use Matrix you can either use Element, Cinny, Syphon, etc. and they will all talk with each other, even if each one of them has its own features/UI
I’d like to know, too. Especially considering most servers I’m on are unlikely to switch.
They only thing missing is voice for gaming.