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Revolt became Stoat (stoat.chat)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Stoat (formerly known as Revolt) is a selfhostable, FOSS replacement for discord [Group chats and voice channels you can join any time].

Cool new name, however not as easy to use in other languages.

Voice chat is stil not officialy implemented.

Self-hosting there. Apparently nothing to do for you if you had already hosted before the name change.

The Android app has unfortunately disappeared (not been updated) on F-droid.

Edit: added short description for clarification

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[-] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 3 points 7 months ago

This seems like a cool project. I especially love the UI's similarity to Discord, but it still has a long road ahead to be a viable chat platform IMO.

I've been periodically checking in with ~~Revolt~~ Stoat for about a year now, and personally, the two things that I'm waiting for are:

  1. Voice chat - It seems like this is coming, but they had to clean up a bunch or tech debt first
  2. Federation - Self-hosted chat is great, but not being able to talk to other servers is incredibly limiting for a social tool. AFAIK they're not planning on implementing this. This is likely a deal-breaker for a lot of folks.

I'm currently running Matrix synapse, and while matrix is kinda a messy ecosystem, it's really hard to compete with its maturity and adoption in the FOSS / Self-Hosted space.

Also, not super important, but this blog post reads like it's AI generated.

[-] themagzuz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 7 months ago

i honestly think that if revolt had federation, then it would be the obvious choice for me, but alas. personally i'm still hopeful for polyproto getting off the ground, but the boring realistic choice for the time being is probably something like XMPP + mumble

[-] fixmycode@feddit.cl 0 points 7 months ago

what's really federation on a system that isolates conversations per server? can you reply to a message from one server on another? maybe the main thing would be single account, because even friend lists from multiple accounts could be merged

[-] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 1 points 7 months ago

what's really federation on a system that isolates conversations per server?

That's like asking why Lemmy needs federation if posts are tied to a Community.

No federation means:

  • Every server requires a different user account to join a room
  • Every server needs to be accessed from a different URL
  • Users in different servers cannot direct message, call, or friendlist one another

Federated platforms aren't perfect, but they solve these problems.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

I looked at the website and every link and have no idea what it does.

"Connect with your friends and community" was in a screenshot.

[-] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Ah! If you have never heard of it I can tell you: it's the foss, self-hostable equivalent of Discord. Except we are still waiting for the voice channels.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

If there's no voice channels, then why reinvent IRC?

[-] ayyo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Compared to some other alternatives, I think the thing it really has going for it is how simple it is. It's really a drop in replacement for discord, something I actually think maybe my friends that don't really care about Foss would consider switching to. They've told me they don't want to take the time to learn a new messaging software, I don't think they'd have to with this.

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