It got an influx of people and is laggy, but when it works... it honestly feels just like discord. I haven't seen screen sharing working yet but the dev in the discord was saying he was working on an update to alleviate the lag and it would make self-hosting easier, which would also help alleviate lag indirectly
I'll preface this with things on the internet are not always factual.
In addition to that, I was mistaken, it wasn't total traffic, just the two most active users didn't post at all on the day the Ukrainians attacked the power grid...
The other statistics in this thread are eye opening for normal people, if they are accurate.
Update: I was wrong you do not need to create an account for each server
Original with misinformation stricken out:
I don't think stoat is federated... People need to make a new account for every server, so I can't see this catching on.
I wouldn't personally care, but it's a problem for a lot of people.
If I'm wrong let me know though. I'd love to get away from discord and my attempts to get friends on mumble or TS6 have been unsuccessful.
It got an influx of people and is laggy, but when it works... it honestly feels just like discord. I haven't seen screen sharing working yet but the dev in the discord was saying he was working on an update to alleviate the lag and it would make self-hosting easier, which would also help alleviate lag indirectly