Stoat
Stoat (formely Revolt) is a chat platform that duplicates the concept of Discord. It's open-source and in active developement. The advantages are the fact it complies with GDPR, and are more protective over privacy.
Features
Stoat is still in mid-dev, therefore it may lack features unlike Discord, such as :
- Video Recording
- Screensharing
- Avatar decorations/Animated avatar
Currently there are no paid features on Stoat. But rumors and leaks said that there will be a subscription in a undefined amount of time.
There are also features that you can find for free on Stoat such as :
- Profile Banner
- 2000 character limit on messages
- Server banner
- Using external emojis/animated emojis
Community
Stoat has, a quite large community for a very unknown platform in comparison with Discord. Popular and grown servers will be shown in the Discovery page in the client.
History
The website turns online at 27th January 2021, aswell the first account, @insert, got created.Revolt rebrands to Stoat
The 1st October 2025, Revolt suddently rebrands to Stoat. This is due to DMCA menaces by a U.S. based company also called "Revolt".
They alongside decided to push their W.I.P material you client which lead to confusion as it wasn't finished and still buggy and unoptimized.