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

  • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
    25·
    11 hours 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.

      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        9·
        9 hours 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).

      • ayyo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        14·
        10 hours 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.

    • papertowels@mander.xyzEnglish
      4·
      9 hours ago

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

      • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
        9·
        9 hours 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
          3·
          8 hours 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.

          • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
            1·
            56 minutes ago

            Why not any of the other Matrix clients? I’ve got some friends on Element with some bridges and it’s pretty much perfect.