Here's a big change. Long Live Stoat! - Stoat
stoat.chat
After four years of building Revolt, we're rebranding to Stoat to better reflect our mission and community.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/35523960

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

  • ominous ocelot@leminal.space
    6·
    2 months ago

    Stoat.
    https://stoat.chat/
    https://github.com/stoatchat

    Looks like a self hostable chat server. The server is written in rust and the clients in typescript and nodejs. It has client implementations for android, iOS, web, electron (win, linux, macos; x64 + arm). Text only, voice is planned.

    I would have appreciated a short description about the product in op, neither stoat nor revolt are particularly helpful to guess what’s it used for.

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    There is a 3rd party app called Clerotri in FDroid.

    However the bigger problem is that they started blocking my VPN, so I can’t even access it anymore…

    • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Hmm indeed, somehow I did not see it this morning. For anyone curious it’s on the izzyondroid repo. Updated 2 months ago.

    • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Well I am disappointed that it’s not updated (or at all under Stoat name) on the F-droid repo. But no, since the voice chat is not there yet, you don’t need to care at the moment. :]

        • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          It’s a potential FOSS replacement for discord, nice to move your friends who are hooked on discord but to lazy to try matrix/xmpp/whatever (once stoat has covered the voice channels). Appart from that no, I don’t think so.

          • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            you should put this in the post description; it’s not clear what stoat is for the people who don’t already know.

              • Ferk@lemmy.ml
                1·
                1 month ago

                Yes, last time I tried Revolt it looked shamelessly like Discord’s UI.

                I feel that if they just wanted an app with the look and feel of discord, it would have made more sense to make a matrix (or maybe xmpp) client with the look and feel of discord. I honestly don’t see much value in yet another protocol if the only distinctive feature is in the look & feel of the UI. Specially if they are not designing the stack in a way that is at least as good as those other options from a security, privacy, feature extensibility and decentralization standpoint.

            • Kynn@jlai.lu
              1·
              1 month ago

              Coming from discord, matrix element ui is shitty (my personal viewpoint only). The fact that you don’t have a visible spaces et chats hierarchy with categories is so complicated to get where you are and know what is there… On that front Cinny does very great, but has no audio nor video for now.