Here's a big change. Long Live Stoat! - Stoat
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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

    • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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      7 days 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
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        7 days 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
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            7 days 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.