Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?

• Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nowadays everyone accepted the name “Discord” but I think it’s a pretty poor choice of branding too.

  A communication app called Discord is pretty weird too.

  A stoat is a pretty cool animal.

  I think without prior knowledge of any voice chat Discord would probably rate worse in perception than Stoat.

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  • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nowadays everyone accepted the name “Discord” but I think it’s a pretty poor choice of branding too.

    A terrible name for an app meant to facilitate communication. Always baffled me. But the name is so widely recognized that nobody thinks twice about it.

    I always thought Noosphere would make a cool name for a Discord replacement, especially if it incorporates a way to permanently catalog the knowledge accrued by the community, say as a built-in wiki. That might actually make it viable as a support platform.

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• quaff@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No clue! It was revolt before. I think they had trademark issues with that name. What’s wrong with stoat?

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  • ttyybb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was wondering why I want getting any updates, checked thegithub a few months ago and found out they rebranded. Haven’t had a chance to try the latest version out yet

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  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Personally, I associate stoats with Dwarf Fortress. And much butchering thereof.

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you mean unlike the tools discord has replaced, such as “mumble”, “ventrilo”, “roger wilco” and “trillian”?

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  • autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mumble is a very like talking. What the fuck ks stoat got to do with anything?

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      now do the other ones

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      • autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do them yourself.

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  • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Xfire

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  • hesh@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unironically yes

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      soundn like a problem with your friends then. who doesn’t love a stoat?

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      • hesh@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I know, it’s picky lol. I’m still considering it as the replacement for my discord groups (also checking out Element/Matrix). The average users aren’t going to be up for swapping around a lot of platforms, so I am hoping to make one big push on the platform of choice. “Revolt” would have gotten less “wtf is that, how do you even spell it?” than “Stoat”

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Discord never replaced mumble. The two are in different circles.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      for some, yeah. depends on your use case.

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• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This whole “FOSS names are bad” sounds like a Mccarthyism sysop by this point. Like, really, who is pushing that crap?

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• hexagonwin@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  seems like they had a decent name ‘revolt’ but got some cease and desist and didn’t resist and decided to switch.

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• Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The name doesnt matter

  IRC is a stupid name too, unless you know what the letters stand for

  Msn messenger was stupid

  Icq was stupid

  Wtf even is “skype”?

  It just has to be unique

  And a Stout is kinda cute

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• hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What do you meeaaan? Stoats are fucking adorable!

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Stoats are awesome.

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