Submitted 3 weeks ago by Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://stoat.chat/updates/long-live-stoat
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.
This seems like a cool project. I especially love the UI’s similarity to Discord, but it still has a long road ahead to be a viable chat platform IMO.
I’ve been periodically checking in with Revolt Stoat for about a year now, and personally, the two things that I’m waiting for are:
I’m currently running Matrix synapse, and while matrix is kinda a messy ecosystem, it’s really hard to compete with its maturity and adoption in the FOSS / Self-Hosted space.
Also, not super important, but this blog post reads like it’s AI generated.
i honestly think that if revolt had federation, then it would be the obvious choice for me, but alas. personally i’m still hopeful for polyproto getting off the ground, but the boring realistic choice for the time being is probably something like XMPP + mumble
I’m getting an HTTP 522 from that link. What’s Polyproto?
Also, is there a reason you’re not considering Matrix?
It looks like polyproto doesn’t have any intent to implement voice chat or screen sharing?
what’s really federation on a system that isolates conversations per server? can you reply to a message from one server on another? maybe the main thing would be single account, because even friend lists from multiple accounts could be merged
what’s really federation on a system that isolates conversations per server?
That’s like asking why Lemmy needs federation if posts are tied to a Community.
No federation means:
Federated platforms aren’t perfect, but they solve these problems.
That’s an otterly different name!
I like things named after animals!
Thanks for making me realize the name is not just gibberish
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).
“Riot” the old name of their webclient
I mean, by that logic discord has a much more likely claim.
do you think they would spend their little money on this?
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.
Yeah I would assume if anything they would have helped them bring federation
I know trademarks don’t work that way, but imagine if it was actually Revolut, the fintech company
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.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I looked at the website and every link and have no idea what it does.
“Connect with your friends and community” was in a screenshot.
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Ah! If you have never heard of it I can tell you: it’s the foss, self-hostable equivalent of Discord. Except we are still waiting for the voice channels.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If there’s no voice channels, then why reinvent IRC?
papertowels@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Wait when I tested revolt a few months ago they definitely had voice channels - was that a beta feature?