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.
Well I don’t think Stoat will ever have a realistic chance of usurping Discord, but this is more to people on here who presumably don’t use Discord (for the reasons that they don’t use Reddit) if they’ve heard of it.
Agreed. My comment is for the many users who would leave but can’t because “all my friends are here”.
We wouldn’t have this problem if Discord and Stoat were federated (I know it’s not on their roadmap).
So the next best thing is bridge bots.