Comment on Revolt became Stoat

• poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • cloudskater@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hey I know this is an old comment but could you elaborate on this? I’m trying to choose between Matrix and Stoat and no matter which is better, Matrix is out of the question if it’s into crypto bullshit.

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    • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      These days not so much, but you might find their contracts with the military also objectionable.

      But they got a major early investment in 2018 from Status, a cryptocurrency/web3 company, and later in 2021 an even bigger one in relation to Protocol Labs, who peddle their own cryptocurrency.

      But persnally I would not recommend Stout either as it is not a serious project nor does it federate. Maybe look into XMPP or DeltaChat.

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      • cloudskater@pawb.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thank you for the info. I looked at people discussing Matrix for ages here and nobody brought this up? What the hell?

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah I would assume if anything they would have helped them bring federation

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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