Don't get me wrong, I'm generally pro-Ukraine and tend to trust The Guardian... I just thought this photo looked a bit 'off' and wondered if it was just me?

Anyone here have experience self-hosting Stoat?

After a few evenings banging my head against the keyboard I finally have Revolt and Livekit self-hosted!

It's largely all working through the official stoat-for-web that I'm hosting, but something really simple is preventing me inviting my friends along to try it...

I've set the backend to invite-only and added an invite code to the database... But I can't for the life of me figure out how the devs intend for invites to actually work beyond the backend?

• It doesn't seem to be a feature of stoat-for-web at all.
• The app doesn't support any alternative servers as far as I can tell

Any good workarounds, besides opening up the floodgates...?

Kept trying for 20mins, decided to be patient and just try again the next day...

Hello

Long time lurker, first time poster etc etc...

Interested what you guys make of these WhatsApp messages I just received...

...I have no such booking...

Obviously this sort of scam/phishing nonsense is nothing new to me, but a few things stood out...

• They have my full name and phone number 😕
• I do use booking.com (but I suppose many do so they could assume...)
• This WhatsApp message has been marked as "using a secure service from Meta"... So this isn't just a random phone (I have anonymous messages blocked) they have some sort of privilege on the platform... WTF
• They even have some special reply buttons at the end of the message.
• I just don't get it... Like, what are the odds they guess the dates and hotel accurately that I would bite...? And having gone to this length, why then fall at the last hurdle by having a weird sender name like "Rus Education"...?