stoat.exposed

Receipts

Everything here is already public.

This site is a takedown of claims Stoat publishes. It quotes marketing, legal pages, GitHub, Companies House, Ko-fi, and reporting. If a post is edited later, the URL still names the document they chose to ship. Research compiled September 2026.

Official Stoat

  1. stoat.chat · live homepage claims
  2. About · “Every line of code is public,” “100% Open source”
  3. Download · Early Access, TestFlight, macOS quarantine, Flathub “in the process”
  4. Privacy policy · Revolt Platforms Ltd as controller
  5. Stoat supplement · messages, DOB, IP, hCaptcha
  6. Long Live Stoat · rebrand, then the C&D addendum
  7. Month in Revolt, May 2024 · CLA dropped, Discover/Shield still owed
  8. FAQ · funding, coming soon ™️, monetisation, self-host branding rules. Last update 10 May 2024
  9. Helping Stoat · donations, “consult me first”
  10. Minimum age guidelines
  11. Rebrand to Stoat · wiki, Furor/Stoat survey, LiveKit unusable

Company and money

  1. Companies House: Revolt Platforms Ltd 16260658
  2. PSC: Pawel Makles, 75% or more
  3. Endole profile · virtual office, first accounts due 18 Nov 2026
  4. Ko-fi: Stoat · running costs
  5. Ko-fi: Paul Makles · personal page, split post, “development costs”

GitHub

  1. stoatchat org · client table, Fit For Use blank on iOS
  2. insertish · FUTO/Immich bio, Discord handle
  3. for-ios · “not yet ready for production”
  4. self-hosted · official clients mostly unsupported
  5. service-admin-panel#5 · AGPL + proprietary trees
  6. Discussion #597 · E2EE after video, no ETA
  7. Discussion #1050 · “main character” tagline, plaintext DB comment, lock
  8. CLA repo · relicensing purpose
  9. AUP · misinformation clause, CSAM prohibition

Team wiki, archived

The live developers site no longer serves these inquiry pages. Wayback Machine captures from 11 February 2026:

  1. 2023-12-02 Email from Vale ‘Regarding Revolt’ · Jennifer/Android closed source “to collect praise,” Zomatree conduct, CLA for commercial licensing, Discover as business sense, “everything is on a volunteer basis”
  2. 2024-05-11 Addressing recent controversy · privacy branding stripped for lack of E2EE, Android still closed in beta, “ignore the drama,” commitments due end of May

History and press

  1. A Complete History of Stoat, Vale.Rocks · 28 Aug 2026. Co-founders, Tate fork, C&D, US node pull, 1.5M registered
  2. Wikipedia: Stoat (software)
  3. TechRadar · Feb 2026 crash
  4. Destructoid · “too many people”
  5. GameStar · unfinished buttons, latency
  6. PrivacyTools on Stoat · not a privacy messenger

Community and critiques

  1. r/revoltchat rebrand thread
  2. Server-admin feedback
  3. UK NSFW geo-block, maintainer comments
  4. Discover is non-free
  5. Mathium05: What’s the deal with Revolt/Stoat? · split forges, admin panel, rebrand handling
  6. Discoverolt README · Discover described as proprietary

Also used, with a warning

  1. r/dcts threads that accuse Stoat of CSAM mishandling are a competitor’s marketing footnotes. This site does not treat them as findings.

Editorial illustrations on this site are original. They are not photographs of Pawel Makles or anyone on the Stoat team.