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.

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

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
    English
    34·
    24 days 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.xyzOPEnglish
      251·
      24 days 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.

        • ayyo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          171·
          24 days 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.

        • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          9·
          24 days ago

          There’s a wide gap of stuff one can do between IRC and “chat with voice channels”. For example, having a better protocol with better formatting options, a moderation API, better account management, other forms of multimedia (page embeds, images).

      • papertowels@mander.xyzEnglish
        5·
        24 days ago

        Wait when I tested revolt a few months ago they definitely had voice channels - was that a beta feature?

        • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          11·
          24 days ago

          Yes it needs extra steps if you are selfhosting and is not supported in the third party app clerotri for example. It seemed an hassle enough that I did not try it on my selfhosted instance.

          • papertowels@mander.xyzEnglish
            5·
            24 days ago

            Gotcha that does match my impression.

            You’re right though, there’s value in it being a drop-in replacement for discord. Along those lines, I’m very excited for cinny, a matrix discord-like frontend. There’s a PR for voice calls that I check every now and then, the moment that goes in I’ll be trying to convince my friends to hop over.