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The homepage has no explanation of where the server is in all this? Github page doesnt help either?! Where is my data stored?
by dabeeeenster 2y ago
The homepage has no explanation of where the server is in all this? Github page doesnt help either?! Where is my data stored?
- OuterVale 2y agohttps://revolt.chat/legal/community-guidelines#jurisdiction https://revolt.chat/legal/community-guidelines#jurisdiction
- guy234 2y agoAccording to another comment itt it is federated.
- Aachen 2y agoI didn't see federation mentioned anywhere, just self hosting. The difference: - Self hosted means everyone has their own server, people need to register for the server they're interested in using. Websites are an example of this: you host your own system independently of anything else going on (though there are hyperlinks to cross-link content, which aren't necessarily present in other self-hosted software). Git servers are another example, like Gitea or Forgejo or Gitlab or gitweb - Federated usually lets you connect servers, so that if I'm on HN and want to post a comment on a Reddit thread, if they were federating, I could just do that without logging into reddit specifically (let alone registering a completely separate account for the other server). The best example may be email, where I don't need to register with Google (yet) to send a Google user an email but I specify @gmail.com after the user's name. A more recent popular example is Mastodon Each has upsides and downsides, like having to moderate content from other servers and having a much more complex protocol (federated) versus being independent and simple but also being another walled garden (self hosted) Edit: confirmed by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43278375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43278375 > > As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap