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.

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

  • ominous ocelot@leminal.space
    5·
    5 months ago

    Stoat.
    https://stoat.chat/
    https://github.com/stoatchat

    Looks like a self hostable chat server. The server is written in rust and the clients in typescript and nodejs. It has client implementations for android, iOS, web, electron (win, linux, macos; x64 + arm). Text only, voice is planned.

    I would have appreciated a short description about the product in op, neither stoat nor revolt are particularly helpful to guess what’s it used for.

  • Sahil? 🇵🇸@ieji.de
    1·
    5 months ago

    @Alfredolin oh yeah, i did check that out just a few days ago. I was a fan first, but later I got to know that they do not keep users data encrypted, so decided to ultimately get rid of it :/

    • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      True! That’s why you should self-host. And still better than discord in that regard, where any admin can look at any of your chats.

      But yes, Stoat is not really a privacy focused chat. I see it only as an alternative to discord for gaming voice chat.

      Actually, I always forget but nowadays Steam has a pretty decent voice chat too. 🤔

        • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          It very much depends on what you are looking for.

          Matrix is pretty good, but hosting synapse (Matrix server) is resource consuming. XMPP is very nice I think but I have not tried voice there. Nextcloud Talk requires to have everyone registered on the Nextcloud instance and also needs somewhat beefy HW. Mattermost seems to be professional level stuff, did not try. I don’t really know about other alternatives, that’s why I am waiting for a proper voice chat in Stoat so that I can test it.

          So far, Stoat seems to be THE alternative to discord. For gaming atm I’m still using discord (because I would be the one moving everyone, and I won’t do it with a proper alternative. For gaming that is. Discord is one of the last proprietary chats I use.)

          • Sahil? 🇵🇸@ieji.de
            0·
            5 months ago

            @Alfredolin Matrix has metadata leaks tho, and it isn’t perfect. You could try Mattermost, I have done so yet. The thing I’m doing is just making groups in Signal or even just sticking to plain old Discord. It’s kind of like YouTube, where it’s hard to find an actually good replacement.

            • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              My threat model does not require me to have something better than a selfhosted Matrix server. The point is leaving capitalist leechservices and/or US-based services.

    • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      Well I am disappointed that it’s not updated (or at all under Stoat name) on the F-droid repo. But no, since the voice chat is not there yet, you don’t need to care at the moment. :]

        • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          3·
          5 months 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.