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Revolt became Stoat and is not in Fdroid anymore. (stoat.chat)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Should anyone care?

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (8 children)

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. :]

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I mean does this app do anything special?

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

why would they move to stoat if they are too lazy to install matrix?

[–] Kynn@jlai.lu 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Coming from discord, matrix element ui is shitty (my personal viewpoint only). The fact that you don't have a visible spaces et chats hierarchy with categories is so complicated to get where you are and know what is there.... On that front Cinny does very great, but has no audio nor video for now.

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Because it's litteraly a copy of discord.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yes, last time I tried it it looked shamelessly like discord's UI.

I feel that if they just wanted an app with the look and feel of discord, it would have made more sense to make a matrix (or maybe xmpp) client with the look and feel of discord. I honestly don't see much value in yet another protocol if the only distinctive feature is in the look & feel of the UI. Specially if they are not designing the stack in a way that is at least as good as those other options from a security, privacy and decentralization standpoint.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you should put this in the post description; it's not clear what stoat is for the people who don't already know.

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

I have updated the OP, I don't really know how it appears in crossposts.

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