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.

  • xpey@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m really rooting for it, it has sooo much potential. Biggest seller for me is how lightweight it is compared to Discord.

    In its current stage, it’s a difficult switch if you come from Discord. No screenshare is a dealbreaker for me and many.

    I have my account, I sometimes use it to talk in big servers, but I’ve had no luck trying to bring friends in. And without friends there’s no much reason to log in daily.

    Maybe one day when it gets the good features.

      • xpey@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Ah, none of my circle really uses that feature so I wasn’t aware of its implementation. It feels like a super basic thing, suprised it’s not on Stoat yet. I can see how that’s also a dealbreaker to some.