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Well currently community discovery within the app is on ice due to a lack of support team managing it (whoever did it just left) so the only way communities within it will grow meaningfully would be through communities set up that source their userbases externally.

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Has anyone here heard of or used the Revolt app? Now known as Stoat. (piefed.social)

submitted 4 days ago by Skavau@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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It was recently renamed to Stoat after a cease and desist letter over the name. Link here

I once tried it a year ago when known as Revolt when browsing for Discord alternatives. It wasn't great then, but it's improved somewhat since then since then. It's technically a centralised platform, albeit people can self-host it themselves if they wanted to. It's fairly well designed and closer to Discord parity than any other alternative I've seen (whilst Discord does have some cool stuff, a lot of its excess is completely slop that can be ignored). I'd personally prefer a federated Discord - but we don't seem to be anywhere close to that soon. "Roomy" for Bluesky is at the very beginning of its development.

I know some people here use Matrix, but it hasn't really taken off for general usage outside of Instance Meta chats - and I personally find it to be quite a cumbersome and sometimes buggy client that really isn't designed like Discord.

It's a bit frustrating that we have a lot of development of Reddit alternatives now via Piefed and Lemmy, but a true Discord alternative a long-way away.

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Piefed 1.4 will be bringing in the ability to mods to label content AI, and Stack Overflow-style functionality in the comment box. (piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Skavau@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Click here for information on the Stack Overflow stuff and here for the AI tagging.

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Is Bluesky about to implode, and if it does - would this mean refugees coming here in any numbers? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 months ago by Skavau@piefed.social to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Just noting the many issues I'm seeing talked about on r/BlueSkySocial with the childish management. Not saying that most people are about to leave, but this /could/ cause a downstream effect?