Background & History

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The Revolt project was originally started in 2019 by insert, Martin Löffler - please do not email, and nizune. It was geared towards being an alternative to the prevelant closed-source chat platforms everyone was accustomed to.

“From your first dirt block, to the greatest guild you have ever played with, to late-night deep conversations with your friends, we all know how important communication is.

We at Revolt strive to create a free and open platform, allowing diversified communities of all kinds to thrive and to be fully transparent with our users. We believe everyone should have total freedom over how they talk with each other.

We realize these days that privacy has come down lower in priority amongst other values. We believe in freedom of speech, that everyone should have the right to talk freely and express themselves in any way.”

- nizune, Former Designer

Originally, the project was operating under the name RIOT, which you can find on GitHub and (my legacy) GitLab, eventually this project fell apart and stopped development.

Communication is critical.

Privacy is essential.

Revolt as it stands today, began development towards the end of 2020, went online on the 27th of January 2021, and went into a public beta on the 11th of August 2021.

Open source user-first chat platform

The project is completely open source which allows us to afford users transparency, freedom, and the best experience possible.

Find your community,

connect with the world.

We are very thankful to our users for using Revolt and we think they deserve transparency from our side and we do our best to provide the best platform with the highest standard of privacy and security they deserve. We recognize everyone who helps improve our solution and we are open to contributions from our community as together, we can develop a platform that we all deserve.

Continue through to the next page to read about our core vision and values.
If you’d like to learn more about key events and history of Revolt, check out the community wiki!