It was recently renamed to Stoat after a cease and desist letter over the name. Link here

I once tried it a year ago when known as Revolt when browsing for Discord alternatives. It wasn’t great then, but it’s improved somewhat since then since then. It’s technically a centralised platform, albeit people can self-host it themselves if they wanted to. It’s fairly well designed and closer to Discord parity than any other alternative I’ve seen (whilst Discord does have some cool stuff, a lot of its excess is completely slop that can be ignored). I’d personally prefer a federated Discord - but we don’t seem to be anywhere close to that soon. “Roomy” for Bluesky is at the very beginning of its development.

I know some people here use Matrix, but it hasn’t really taken off for general usage outside of Instance Meta chats - and I personally find it to be quite a cumbersome and sometimes buggy client that really isn’t designed like Discord.

It’s a bit frustrating that we have a lot of development of Reddit alternatives now via Piefed and Lemmy, but a true Discord alternative a long-way away.

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    I really liked the customizable UI colors. I found everything to be adequate except two things:

    1. You need something like discord roles, if you dont have that to sort people into channels its a non-starter
    2. No video sharing
      So none of my friends left discord and I had to go back to using it too.

    Edit: I think this was 2 years ago by the way

      • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Discord has the roles or tags or whatever, and you can say “only pepple with x role can chat/post/shsre video/post images in this channel”. Its the best part of discord. Stoat didn’t have it back when I tried it as revolt and it made it useless for me.