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.

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.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 months 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
      221·
      2 months 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
          131·
          2 months 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.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    23·
    2 months ago

    I wonder who made the legal threats. I suspect it was Element (Matrix), as they are the only ones with a possible to confuse trademark in the same business sector (“Riot” the old name of their webclient).

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
        41·
        2 months ago

        You mean the multiple millions of VC money and crypto investments? Absolutely.

        The Matrix foundation also would have plenty of money if it wasn’t just a front for Element and most funds being siphoned off to pay for services provided by Element.

    • 8osm3rka@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      I know trademarks don’t work that way, but imagine if it was actually Revolut, the fintech company

      • Lumisal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Somewhere on Lemmy someone said it came out that it was Revolt.tv

        But yeah, I honestly would constantly type Revolut instead of Revolt before, so that was my guess before too.