Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

• paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s Stoat now! stoat.chat

  I recently joined! It’s very close to Discord.

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  • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No VOIP? That’s the only reason I ever use discord, when my friends force me to so I can talk while we play games. Guess teamspeak is still king

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    • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No video call or screen share either from what I can tell, which is uhhh pretty major to day the least. That said, it’s not like I need only use one platform at a time. I’ll probably get on that and start using it and hope that they add those things in the future. But yeah, I’m not sure if I would call it close to Discord right now.

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    • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They have voice chat channels in Stoat, or are you wanting p2p calls?

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      • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        No just voice channels, I’m glad they have them but it was completely missing from their marketing on the website. Just says “text channels done right” and there isn’t a single lime about voice support

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s rocketchat, too, which bills itself more corporately

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    • Attacker94@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you don’t care about audio on screenshare you could use matrix, that’s what I do.

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  • hurn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Anyone else not receiving the verification email? Doesn’t seem to work for me.

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    • paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think it took a long time for me the first time. They seem way smaller than Discord, so I imagine they don’t have the fastest infrastructure. Also, I signed up with a non-gmail account and their verification email did make it through eventually.

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  • MrKoyun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wow! I had checked these guys out a long while ago. It seems they’ve gotten a fresh coat of paint. I should revisit it. Maybe convince my friends to switch…

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• rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Reposting my reply from another thread, just to keep people informed:

  Keep in mind everyone that Stoat still doesn’t currently protect it’s users information and is centralized. It doesn’t use encryption but it is very seamless. You can host your own Stoat instance but it doesn’t communicate with the main one. The devs have said they plan to add more security features in the future yet still don’t make it a priority. The host of Stoat should be able to see everyone’s messages, including in DM’s, due to the lack of E2E encryption. Once they add more security features I imagine they will be much more popular in general.

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• redsand@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s dead. The development has been as fraught as Tox and it has no feature parity. Not sure it’s worth forking.

  Right now your best options are jitsi for video or good old mumble for voice and simplex or matrix for text chat.

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