My threat model does not require me to have something better than a selfhosted Matrix server. The point is leaving capitalist leechservices and/or US-based services.

I think poob is actually just a front for zoorb, which with the current situation makes blorp actually a part of glurb.

It very much depends on what you are looking for.

Matrix is pretty good, but hosting synapse (Matrix server) is resource consuming. XMPP is very nice I think but I have not tried voice there. Nextcloud Talk requires to have everyone registered on the Nextcloud instance and also needs somewhat beefy HW. Mattermost seems to be professional level stuff, did not try. I don’t really know about other alternatives, that’s why I am waiting for a proper voice chat in Stoat so that I can test it.

So far, Stoat seems to be THE alternative to discord. For gaming atm I’m still using discord (because I would be the one moving everyone, and I won’t do it with a proper alternative. For gaming that is. Discord is one of the last proprietary chats I use.)

Garuda dr46nized has a pretty fetch by default on its console.

True! That’s why you should self-host. And still better than discord in that regard, where any admin can look at any of your chats.

But yes, Stoat is not really a privacy focused chat. I see it only as an alternative to discord for gaming voice chat.

Actually, I always forget but nowadays Steam has a pretty decent voice chat too. 🤔

Because it’s litteraly a copy of discord.

I have updated the OP, I don’t really know how it appears in crossposts.

I don’t know what you mean by that.

I just wanted to point out that people hosting it (the server) on e.g. docker should update their compose file.

The fdroid app seems to be regularly updated and valid for android ≥ 7.0

It’s a potential FOSS replacement for discord, nice to move your friends who are hooked on discord but to lazy to try matrix/xmpp/whatever (once stoat has covered the voice channels). Appart from that no, I don’t think so.

Edited for clarification.

Yes it needs extra steps if you are selfhosting and is not supported in the third party app clerotri for example. It seemed an hassle enough that I did not try it on my selfhosted instance.

Hmm indeed, somehow I did not see it this morning. For anyone curious it’s on the izzyondroid repo. Updated 2 months ago.

Ah! If you have never heard of it I can tell you: it’s the foss, self-hostable equivalent of Discord. Except we are still waiting for the voice channels.

Well I am disappointed that it’s not updated (or at all under Stoat name) on the F-droid repo. But no, since the voice chat is not there yet, you don’t need to care at the moment. :]

Thx.

I would gladly share that, unfortunately it already has lost too many pixels.