So this is interesting.

@xoagray@tiggi.es https://stoat.chat/ is this the thing you're talking about?

Not a cosign btw, i don't know this team or this app

@kalviter Yeah, that's the thing.

@xoagray @kalviter dead URL?

@DeltaWye @kalviter Just clicked on it, it works here.

So this is interesting. Back when Dickscord was doing shitty things before I tried a platform called Revolt. It was a lot like Discord, but totally open source. There were some good and bad points about it. It wasn't anywhere as fully featured as Discord was, and some of the people on there were super cagey and creepy. But the software it's self was a good start towards something better.

That said, development was very slow and it was at that point pretty much a ghost town in comparison to Discord.

Somewhere along about a year ago, I'd seen reports that it renamed it's self to Stoat, and then shortly after died. I tried to log into it just to see if it still worked, and was unable. The login servers were down, it seemed gone.

I was however just made aware that it is still up and running. I don't know if someone else picked up the dead project, or if they were just down for a while for one reason or another, but it does appear to be running again.

So something to consider I guess if you're a Discord user and just don't want to be where Discord is going right now. Stoat is open source, and aiming at being a direct Discord replacement, though they don't seem to be there yet. So for the "It hast to be exactly a 1:1 analog of Discord!" people, you won't be happy. For everyone else though, there might be a little hope.

@xoagray @kalviter I get a cannot find host error. Wierd!

NSURLErrorCannotFindHost

@xoagray what worries me is at some point the main maintener used genAI linecodes (from Claude).
They realised it was too much of a mess and therefore reverted it, but that gives me the impression Stoat is unserious at best, and sadly FOSS isn't immune to AI hype (looking at you Firefox and Fedora)

@DeltaWye @kalviter https://stoat.chat There it is again just in case there's something about that link I can't see. But yeah, it works here.

@xoagray @kalviter I wonder if it’s somehow being blocked by Verizon?

@DeltaWye @kalviter No idea. I don't have anything here that goes through Verizon's networks. Only AT&T and T-Mobile.

@xoagray @kalviter Huh! So odd!

@DeltaWye @xoagray @kalviter get on a vpn and try?

@colinstu @DeltaWye @kalviter that might work. Although it’s still weird, you need to go that far.

@xoagray @colinstu @kalviter Some hint on Reddit that some ISPs may be blocking it!

https://old.reddit.com/r/stoatchat/comments/1r0o1dz/stoat_getting_blocked_by_their_isp_for_anyone_else/

@xoagray @colinstu @kalviter Some hint on Reddit that some ISPs may be blocking it!

https://old.reddit.com/r/stoatchat/comments/1r0o1dz/stoat_getting_blocked_by_their_isp_for_anyone_else/

So this is interesting. Back when Dickscord was doing shitty things before I tried a platform called Revolt. It was a lot like Discord, but totally open source. There were some good and bad points about it. It wasn't anywhere as fully featured as Discord was, and some of the people on there were super cagey and creepy. But the software it's self was a good start towards something better.

That said, development was very slow and it was at that point pretty much a ghost town in comparison to Discord.

Somewhere along about a year ago, I'd seen reports that it renamed it's self to Stoat, and then shortly after died. I tried to log into it just to see if it still worked, and was unable. The login servers were down, it seemed gone.

I was however just made aware that it is still up and running. I don't know if someone else picked up the dead project, or if they were just down for a while for one reason or another, but it does appear to be running again.

So something to consider I guess if you're a Discord user and just don't want to be where Discord is going right now. Stoat is open source, and aiming at being a direct Discord replacement, though they don't seem to be there yet. So for the "It hast to be exactly a 1:1 analog of Discord!" people, you won't be happy. For everyone else though, there might be a little hope.

So this is interesting. Back when Dickscord was doing shitty things before I tried a platform called Revolt. It was a lot like Discord, but totally open source. There were some good and bad points about it. It wasn't anywhere as fully featured as Discord was, and some of the people on there were super cagey and creepy. But the software it's self was a good start towards something better.

That said, development was very slow and it was at that point pretty much a ghost town in comparison to Discord.

Somewhere along about a year ago, I'd seen reports that it renamed it's self to Stoat, and then shortly after died. I tried to log into it just to see if it still worked, and was unable. The login servers were down, it seemed gone.

I was however just made aware that it is still up and running. I don't know if someone else picked up the dead project, or if they were just down for a while for one reason or another, but it does appear to be running again.

So something to consider I guess if you're a Discord user and just don't want to be where Discord is going right now. Stoat is open source, and aiming at being a direct Discord replacement, though they don't seem to be there yet. So for the "It hast to be exactly a 1:1 analog of Discord!" people, you won't be happy. For everyone else though, there might be a little hope.

@xoagray

i am trying to sign up there, but it does not seem to be working for me.

@lor Apparently they're seeing a lot of people trying ot sign up and it's overwhelming their servers.

@xoagray I was able to get on stoat - how about you?