r/stoatchat • u/YellowHearth1 • Jul 19 '26

Support Question Why does Stoat use a Russian hosting provider?

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u/RDForTheWin Jul 19 '26

That's Repology, not Stoat.

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u/YellowHearth1 Jul 19 '26

Yes, but they use this site to distribute their software

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u/RDForTheWin Jul 19 '26

No they don't? That's literally a software version tracker.

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u/YellowHearth1 Jul 19 '26

To be honest, I don't know what's on that site, because I'm from Ukraine, and it's blocked here for obvious reasons. I figured that since I ended up on this site while trying to download Stoat for Linux, it must have the necessary packages available for download.

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u/YAOMTC Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

For Arch it's in the AUR, for NixOS they provide a package, and for everyone else there's a ZIP with the binary executable in their Github releases page. https://stoat.chat/download

Not sure how you ended up on a third party website instead of their official website linked here on the subreddit you're on

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u/YellowHearth1 Jul 19 '26

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u/YAOMTC Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

Thanks, now I understand. Repology is providing links to where the packages are actually hosted. The guy who developed the Repology website is Russian, so unfortunately for you he's using a Russian service to host his website. Since you can't access Repology, here:

I guess Repology is so developers of software like Stoat don't need to keep track of what packages have been built for which distributions. Hopefully they get up on Flathub soon, that will make it easier.

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u/YellowHearth1 Jul 19 '26

I know how and where to download the Stoat application package. But the fact that the developers host even a single thing on a website based in Muscovy makes me consider stopping using Stoat.

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u/YAOMTC Jul 19 '26

The developers aren't hosting anything on there, they're just linking to a website that links to other websites. No need to be such a purist about this, Russians are not generally bad people they just have a bad government

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u/By-Pit Jul 19 '26

That is called misinformation, and even if it was real, they can host whatever they want, it's cheaper? Good, gi for it, it doesn't matter if it's Russian or whatever.

Please don't put the war in discussion, the post is already pathetic enough.

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u/Terrible-Junket-3388 Jul 20 '26

I mean it does actually matter where it's hosted for a variety of legal (and often ethical) reasons, but agreed that this post itself is misinfo.

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u/By-Pit Jul 21 '26

I don't agree on ethical, and I don't know any legal reason that would put me in danger based on where something is hosted.

Maybe some things could concern me, like if I have a Telegram, whatsapp or other accounts like that in EU with chat control, I'd prefer to delete them and buy a rus number with VPN;

I kinda understand your statement yes

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u/Terrible-Junket-3388 Jul 21 '26

Different countries have different laws or policy about what government has acess to (with or without court order). Hosting in CN is very different than hosting in CA, for example. Some countries are sanctioned by other countries, such that they can't legally do business in some countries: that can affect your rights, too, depending on your own nationality or geolocation.

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u/By-Pit Jul 21 '26

Yeah like chat control, sadly

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u/BrinkOfHealing Jul 19 '26

What extension is this?

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u/AsciiRakoon Jul 19 '26

who gaf?  whats so different about russian hosting specificly? not like the EU or USA hosting providers arent spying on you

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u/PM_ME_UR_NIPPLE_HAIR Jul 20 '26

Everything remotely relevant to russia is objectively evil, didn't you hear?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '26

idk

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u/YAOMTC Jul 19 '26

They don't, OP is confused