Enshittification is a given. Once bankers take over, users become lusers that serve to stuff their pockets. This was always going to happen to discord. Slack,

Enshittification is a given. Once bankers take over, users become lusers that serve to stuff their pockets. This was always going to happen to discord. Slack, discord, teams, zoom, hipchat (if you remember that one) etc. all kind of overlap in functionality. They are all commercial tools with slightly different takes on the same space: team communication. Google's internally paranoid schizophrenic mix of ever flopping chat solutions also have some adjacent products. Meets doesn't do chat and chat doesn't do video. What do all of these have in common: they are running backwards and are ever fiddling with ways to ask money for their centralized services. Slack is now owned by salesforce. Zoom peaked during the pandemic but turned out to be a one trick pony. Teams is causing MS to retire Skype and is universally hated for its bloat, poor performance, and pervasiveness in dreadful enterprise heavy companies. And discord does essentially the same things but for gamers. I'm not familiar with revolt. But this stuff is obviously a commodity given the many contenders in this crowded market. So, free and open source should be good enough. There's a long history of chat solutions peaking and then sliding away into obscurity. ICQ, Yahoo messenger, MSN, AOL, etc. The bazillion Google chat/communication products that flopped hard. All gone. All predecessors to Slack and modern equivalents. I was chatting with colleagues in the late nineties using ICQ. These days I use Slack. And Whatsapp. And Meets. And Teams (because our customers are really into masochistic Microsoft products). And all the rest. Revolt is only partially open source unfortunately. IMHO this is a mistake. It's yet another walled garden. It's 2025; we still don't have a proper federated solution (like email) that doesn't lock you in to 1 company, 1 UI, 1 network, etc. The reason email is still around is that federation is important. Everything else comes, enshittifies, and then goes away. Email stays. Why do I need different apps to chat/video call to different people? I have about half a dozen on my phone currently. It's ridiculous.