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.

  • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 days ago

    I cheer for it as an alternative, but I personally won’t be using it because everything it is advertising as to having, is and has already been done.

    What attracts me the most to alternatives, is having that one thing or two things that completely stand out. If its just going to market it self as the ‘open source’ version of something while more or less having majority of the features of the thing it aspires to separate itself from, then I’m reluctant.

    • Skavau@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      This is not a feature as such, but I’d argue that their Server Discovery tools being technically open to any server (unlike Discord) make it a valuable option for people wanting to make new chat communities as compared to Discord where you’re forced to rely on sites like Disboard to attain any server visibility unless you roll in with a large audience sourced from elsewhere.

      But yeah, in terms of features - they are playing catchup first beyond they can innovate any little quirks that Discord doesn’t and won’t have.