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Revolt became Stoat (stoat.chat)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

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[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 20 points 8 months ago (7 children)

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:

Voice chat - It seems like this is coming, but they had to clean up a bunch or tech debt first
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.

[–] fixmycode@feddit.cl 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 5 points 8 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.

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