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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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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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 1 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If there's no voice channels, then why reinvent IRC?

[–] ayyo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Compared to some other alternatives, I think the thing it really has going for it is how simple it is. It's really a drop in replacement for discord, something I actually think maybe my friends that don't really care about Foss would consider switching to. They've told me they don't want to take the time to learn a new messaging software, I don't think they'd have to with this.

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