Self-Host Stoat: Secure Discord Alternative (No Age Verification)
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Discord leaked 70K government IDs. Now they want facial scans. Here's how to self-host Stoat securely instead.
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Stoat is the closest open-source alternative to Discord you can run on your own server. It looks identical, works the same way, and keeps your community's data on your infrastructure. Most setup guides skip the security entirely. This one doesn't. We walk through a pre-tested, hardened Docker Compose setup with non-root containers, network segmentation, Docker secrets, health checks, and a properly configured reverse proxy with WebSocket support. Everything is on our GitHub, ready to deploy.
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🐳 DOCKER COMPOSE FILES
The complete, pre-tested, security-hardened setup used in this video is on our GitHub. All configuration files and setup instructions are there. No code in the description.
💻 Stoat Docker Compose: https://github.com/wnstify/docker/tre...
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🔗 OFFICIAL LINKS
Stoat:
🌐 Website: https://stoat.chat/
📚 Docs: https://developers.stoat.chat/
💻 GitHub: https://github.com/stoatchat/self-hosted
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❤️ OPEN SOURCE THANK YOU
A huge thank you to the Stoat team for building and maintaining an open-source, privacy-first chat platform. Because of their work, communities can own their data and leave corporate surveillance behind.
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
02:32 - Repo Overview
11:07 - Deployment
14:03 - Reverse Proxy & Admin Account
17:41 - FAQ #1 - Stoat vs. Matrix
18:30 - FAQ #2 - Community Switch
19:51 - Things that Matter the Most
20:39 - Wrapping Up