• FindingFocus@kbin.social
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      They even let us pick the numbers! That’s why I got Nitro originally! I’d have never paid for years of nitro without that feature, in fact.

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    I don’t get their motivation behind this change. I mean I read the write-up they posted, but I don’t get how they could seriously think this is a better experience for users.

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      it’s a better experience for corpos that want their brand name to be uniquely identifiable.

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      Their blogpost was complete gaslight, none of the points they listed made any sense.

      It was literally just look more like a mainstream social platform, there are rumours of an IPO…

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    lets all be real. non-unique names what makes discord real discord and what also eliminates unique name marketing or targetting

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    I wish revolt was more popular smh

    They recently added display names while keeping the tags as a direct ‘fuck you’ to discord lol

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      @OtakuAltair

      Do you know if it’s possible to:

      1. Somehow add Discord Servers to Revolt? Like a bridge in matrix to whatsapp for example?
      2. Add Bots / Webhooks like Discord? I have multiple servers and setup alerts that use a discord bot.
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      I frankly have no idea why you would prefer it over Discord other than open source access. Revolt dissuades from self-hosting, is non-federating, has no stable business model and lacks in features. It is a prototype for a future where Discord catastrophically burns down.

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        It is a prototype for a future where Discord catastrophically burns down.

        To be fair, between Twitter and now Reddit, it’s not exactly a bad idea to have alts and backups lol.

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      I frankly have no idea why you would prefer it over Discord other than open source access. Revolt dissuades from self-hosting, is non-federating, has no stable business model and lacks in features. It is a prototype for a future where Discord catastrophically burns down.

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      It’s based on nitro but also how old your account is. I don’t have nitro but joined in 2016 and got a message to update mine last week

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        oh my old discord account was banned a while back so I had made a new one lol. I guess that’s why. I also don’t pay for nitro.

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    I still don’t understand why people are so mad at this.

    Before you were forced to have numbers in your name and now you get a choice, the numbers aren’t forced on you.

    Isn’t more choice better?

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      Right? I realize there are instances where you couldn’t see the numbers but those were few

      Also, they’re so inconsequential, you have a display name which is non-unique and every server has nicknames. There’s almost zero point to the username