It’s mostly because people keep recommending LW instead of other instances.

Self hosted tesseract web UI.

https://tesseract.asudox.dev/

It’s very exciting to see 48k MAU jump up to 55k in such a short time.

Threads is trying to become that. We have a list of instances blocking Threads here: https://fedipact.veganism.social/

It is an alternative, an alternative without the bloat that is.

No? But it can be implemented. Though I don’t think anyone really cares about it, so most likely it won’t. Revolt does not even advertise itself as a gaming chat platform, but just a chat platform.

Relevant discussion: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

Not using any browser that isn’t open source.

You see spez’s ban hammer coming at you.

Well well, that surprises me. But it still lacks the features.

Btw image embedding can be done using this syntax: ![](<image link>)

It’s not meant to be selfhosted.

https://github.com/revoltchat/self-hosted

it’s not federated

I’ll agree on that one. Though the FAQ says that it is not on their future roadmap, but is possible. https://developers.revolt.chat/faq.html

The developer seems very shady

Why?

They are undoubtedly better, but neither of them feel like Discord. They are more like WhatsApp or Signal.

Not suited for the job.

There’s a new beta one which only uses its own index: https://stract.com/

And best of all it’s written in Rust.

https://revolt.chat/

FOSS alternative that looks and feels the same.

Notion mail? Wasn’t that Skiff mail previously?

You can moderate remote communities, but you can’t create ones. Though you can “own” (be the top mod) in one iirc.

loss

profit

Quite the big update. I love the new features. Especially the embedded game window and ingame editing.

They also have an official Lemmy community btw: [email protected]