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.
https://revolt.chat/
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)Matrix is better in all these regards yes, but Revolt has one major upperhand. Onboarding simplicity. A big reason the fediverse has struggled to gain major traction.
If you have to read documentation to understand how to sign up to something, then that’s immediately enough friction to turn users away. Bluesky worked because it was simple sign-up, Mastodon has switched to this too now, offering a button to send people immediately to a signup page on their default server. For major adoption, you have to get people in the door before you explain federation, not the other way around. Sending people to list of servers and clients they can use is bad user experience for the masses.
Revolt will appeal to Discord users more than Matrix, because you download Revolt and sign up to Revolt, there’s no extra thought required.
Man, people are so willing to jump to companies that literally have plans to monetize the shit out of everything in the future just because it’s “simple to use.” It’s literally the same shit with Bluesky a company that owes a shitload to Blockchain Capital and will be needing to pay that money back somehow. It will have to be monetized at some point. (and whose promises of Federation are clearly hokum)
And we complain about how the Trumpers can’t read. Everyone’s way way way too ready to jump to some new shitbag company as long as it’s “simple to understand.”
I’ll be real, I think that’s as pathetic as not reading.
wE’lL jUsT gO tO A nEw CoMpAnY… after they’ve monetized the living shit out of us and our data and the network effects make us stay supporting the company for far longer than it deserves. I guess most people don’t learn from bad experiences and really are fucking stupid.
Eh, may as well start convincing the boys. There’s no way Discord doesn’t just get worse from here.