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If Discord was open source, I actually would not mind paying a fee for it. Fixed or reccurring, ideally the former. But that's never happening. And forget buying that Nitro thing.
revolt might catch up eventually
https://github.com/revoltchat
Revolt looks close, but it isn't self hosted so it is worthless. Revolt will eventually become what discord is if it got big enough.
I am tired of changing services, I want off this clown carousel of:
new product - gains popularity - enshitification
Same here, so unless something is fully open source, self hostable and preferably federating, I'm not picking it up.