Discord announces plans to expand its successful Video Quests advertising format to mobile devices. This strategic move marks the company’s first mobile ad offering, significantly broadening reach for advertisers while maintaining Discord’s commitment to user-first, reward-focused advertising experiences. The initial pilot for Video Quests on Mobile will launch in June 2025, offering advertisers a prime opportunity to showcase trailers, make impactful announcements, and highlight premium content to Discord’s player community.
Obligatory Revolt mention.
Matrix already exists and has a viable long-term financial plan thanks to the Matrix foundation.
I can’t find any relevant funding for Revolt.
Initial filing of the Revolt Platforms Ltd. company.
Unlike the Matrix Foundation, this is a private company with some sort of profit-motive in mind and 100 shares with 75% of them belonging to Pawel Makle.
Matrix Foundation is a non-profit organization. Matrix is already federated. Matrix can already be self-hosted. Matrix already has a Discord-like UI. Matrix already has video calls. Matrix already has screen sharing. Matrix already has a viable financial future.
What’s with this viral marketing for this private company
based in the UK, a place that similar to the US, doesn’t have the best privacy laws?(Scratch that, I thought Matrix was based in Germany, the Matrix Foundation is also in the UK as a Community Interest Company)I poked around with Matrix a bit this week but I’m confused as to how it’s being touted as a replacement for Discord. TBC, I’ve been on Mastodon since 2019 and absolutely want these people-powered alternatives to succeed.
I’m not even talking about the onboarding part, I mean the actual function of the app. With Discord you join a community (server, whatever) and there are a bunch of separate channels, usually separated by topics. I joined a few Matrix servers and they all seem to be one single channel; just one big ol’ scrolling chat where everyone is talking about everything.
Unless I’m missing something, I don’t understand how this will work at all for Discord users looking to jump ship.
In Matrix they’re called Rooms if I recall correctly. Not every instance is very good about breaking it up into smaller groups, but some of them are very good at it.
Eh, may as well start convincing the boys. There’s no way Discord doesn’t just get worse from here.
Neat buuUUUuuut.
Does Revolt have federation?
As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap.
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What can I do with Revolt and how do I self-host?
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You can self-host Revolt by:
- Using Docker Compose and our recommended guide.
- Building individual components yourself from the source code.
It’s basically a bunch of islands.
Looks like no video calls or screensharing? If so, unfortunately won’t be a viable replacement for me.
Also, looks like there are self hosting options but they seem clumsy? From what I read, and happy to be corrected, a self hosted instance is completely separated from the rest of the Revolt ecosystem, meaning new accounts and everything for each.
I’m also curious how they will upkeep the servers without any kind of monetization.
Also it’s a private company, an Ltd. At least the Matrix Foundation (which already has a viable financial future) is a Community Interest Company (non-profit) and has never had any shares for relevant control. Seems like first thing Revolt did was divvy up shares.
Matrix Foundation founding document as Limited Company, and then updated resolutions describing itself as a Community Interest Company Non-profit.
FOSS Discord with decent-looking tools? I’m in
Saving this for later.
And this is why DNS-based ad blockers are needed. Get rekt, Discord, you’re not funneling attack vectors into my chats.
I think people are reading the headline only and thinking this will be mandatory ad views on mobile to, like, just use Discord.
This is an existing thing on desktop already that they are porting over to mobile. It’s an optional ad you can choose to watch in order to gain in-game rewards for various games. Or sometimes a discord profile frame or something.
The advertsising will eventually become required and features that actually benefit users that are expensive to maintain will be removed because that is the parh of enshittificstion.
You may well be right, and I don’t mean to defend Discord or even the feature. I just think a lot of people here were misunderstanding exactly what it was that was being introduced to mobile.
What’s a good alternative to discord? Matrix seems ok
revolt looks okay but havent used it yet personally
Honestly, I don’t mind them adding ads. They’ve got a business to support. But, calling them “quests” and treating them as “rewards” for their users is just so tone-deaf and disingenuous. Likewise, if I’ve boosted even a single server, I shouldn’t see this crap anywhere, let alone on the server I’ve boosted.
I mean, they do get “rewards”. Discord has been doing quests for a while now, even video ones, on desktop. It sounds like maybe this is just the existing feature coming to mobile? For example, I watched an ad for MH Wilds to get in game items.
It’s pretty strange, come to think of it. Who exactly is this convincing to buy MH Wilds? I watched it because I already had MH Wilds. So, for me, I watched an ad for a game I already bought for some items. But, why would I do that if I didn’t already have the game?
Weird lol.
Well, thanks for all the fish.
if this shit shows up on my nitro sub which i paid a year for i’m out
