Steam Deck

16270 readers

60 users here now

A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

Rules:

Follow the rules of Sopuli
Posts must be related to the Steam Deck in an obvious way.
No piracy, there are other communities for that.
Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
Have fun.

Link to our Matrix Space

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

Moxvallix@sopuli.xyz

codus@leby.dev

timi@lemmy.world

RolAIDS05@lemmy.world

Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz

RolAIDS05@sopuli.xyz

Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by PerfectDark@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

So...this one is a bit left-of-field.

A friend of mine (Gardiner Bryant of YouTube - who reports on Linux and the Steam Deck) has started a Revolt server.

What is Revolt?

It's kinda like a FOSS alternative to Discord. You'll see the layout is almost a direct copy, and it's far less polished...but then again you haven't got the downsides of Discord's constant upselling either:

https://revolt.chat/

Why is this relevant?

...I can hear you ask? Well, so far its just a few developers and creators in there, but I thought of all spaces...maybe those very devs and creators whose work you use and watch...well it might be nice to join in there?

My personal friends who are in here so far are:

imLinguin whose GitHub is here - but you may know most as a developer of Heroic Games Launcher
Eben Bruyns whose GitHub is here - but you may know best as the dev of Junk-Store
Gardiner himself, of course whose YouTube link is here,
Jason Evangelho who is the senior contributor of gaming at Forbes - and hasn't read my message yet telling him to join the server so...I'm not even sure why I'm writing this, but regardless his link to his credentials is here

What is the damn link to the damn server, woman?

https://rvlt.gg/dqJT3rJH

I mean, you will have to make an account on Revolt, but it might be interesting to some here. You're all very welcome!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not gonna lie, I haven't used discord much. But to my untrained eye it seems like bad IRC. So out of curiousity, why is this (or discord for that matter) better than IRC?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fancy layout and theme
Easy to understand. Receive a Discord link and it'll ask you to download Discord or join using their web app.
Media support (images, gifs, videos, sounds), Youtube embed, etc
Easy to make your own server. Click 5 things and you have one.
Voice chat with screenshare and even party games
Free (but ofcourse they steal your data)
Channels purely for pinning and sharing information. Including channels that look more like a forum.
No need to remake an account on all the servers.
And a lot more.

People want something else though because Discord is very bad privacy wise. They keep shoving their premium features in your face. Have horrible support and can ban for an out of context "i'm 10 years old". (Even if the next message is "i'm joking"). They have been known to share information about protest organizers with governments, take an extremely long amount of time to remove malicious and predatory servers. And so much more.

People want something that can offer them the comfort of Discord, with the freedom of IRC.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks, that's helpful!