do you think they would spend their little money on this?
Comment on Revolt became Stoat
poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 weeks 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).
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 weeks 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.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 weeks ago
Yeah I would assume if anything they would have helped them bring federation
poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 weeks 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 every changes they would likely prefer XMPP or Matrix.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 weeks 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.
8osm3rka@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I know trademarks don’t work that way, but imagine if it was actually Revolut, the fintech company
Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
papertowels@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I mean, by that logic discord has a much more likely claim.