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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours 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.

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[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It very much depends on what you are looking for.

Matrix is pretty good, but hosting synapse (Matrix server) is resource consuming. XMPP is very nice I think but I have not tried voice there. Nextcloud Talk requires to have everyone registered on the Nextcloud instance and also needs somewhat beefy HW. Mattermost seems to be professional level stuff, did not try. I don't really know about other alternatives, that's why I am waiting for a proper voice chat in Stoat so that I can test it.

So far, Stoat seems to be THE alternative to discord. For gaming atm I'm still using discord (because I would be the one moving everyone, and I won't do it with a proper alternative. For gaming that is. Discord is one of the last proprietary chats I use.)

[–] kq@ieji.de 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

@Alfredolin Matrix has metadata leaks tho, and it isn't perfect. You could try Mattermost, I have done so yet. The thing I'm doing is just making groups in Signal or even just sticking to plain old Discord. It's kind of like YouTube, where it's hard to find an actually good replacement.

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

My threat model does not require me to have something better than a selfhosted Matrix server. The point is leaving capitalist leechservices and/or US-based services.