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

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    33·
    1 day 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).

    • papertowels@mander.xyzEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      “Riot” the old name of their webclient

      I mean, by that logic discord has a much more likely claim.

    • 8osm3rka@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

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

      • Lumisal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        18 hours 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.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
        51·
        1 day 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.

        • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          Not sure if that is still in their FAQ, but the Stoat devs previously said that they don’t want federation, and if that ever changes they would likely prefer XMPP over Matrix.

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
            1·
            21 hours ago

            They said they were open to it but they had zero priority of doing it themselves, and essentially “submit a PR if you want it”. A shame really, their interface is great, and such an easy setup. If they implemented either xmpp or matrix I would switch immediately. All of my friends want a discord clone that “just” works, but no one wants to go to this server for this group and then login to that server for that group. They want a single-pane interface like what discord offers.

            Shortsighted to not implement that IMO.