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

• FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Looks promising…

  ~…but why is it always electron…~

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  • quips@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    FOR REAL BRO

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  • Glitchvid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Because people want fancy animations, images, videos, stylized text, etc. And the easiest way to accomplish that is to just use a browser under the hood.

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• Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Theyve been around for a few years and I’m still not really impressed. No E2EE, No federation if the people running it go belly up. You might as well use signal ATP.

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  • Marvie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As far as I understand it can be somewhat federated using the matrix protocol? https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/stoat/

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    • Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This isn’t federation, its a bridge. Theres also a bridge for Discord, Telegram and Signal, but none of those are federated either

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      • Marvie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ah I get it now!

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• RandAlThor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I just tried to sign up for it. Installed app and signed up, it wouldn’t go through. So I go to web interface and create an account there. I’ve waited ONE HOUR for email verification, and NOTHING. Asked to resend verification, they made me click through 5 captivas, and still NOTHING. Moving on from stoat.

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  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Misconfiguration with SMTP is likely or their SMTP server is under maintenance and you just tried at a poor time.

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    • kcseb@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s even simpler than that… Their SMTP server is just hosted on a homelab and has notoriously been terrible for uptime. They’ve had consistent issues with emails not being sent or received and that’s not even the icing on the shit sundae for Revolt/Stoat.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Which is a great reason to dump SMTP altogether. It’s a messaging platform FFS. If you need to send someone a message, do it on the platform.

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• kcseb@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Absolutely not.

  Stoat (formerly Revolt) is an utter shit-show of alt left and right extremists and the development is dead in the water. They’ve claimed to be working on feature parity with Discord for years now. Not to mention the developers jumping ship and the whole “Stoat” rebrand. Not to mention, their email verification server is just hosted on a homelab setup which has lead to a plethora of users being unable to receive their verification emails, resulting in them requiring a manual approval via emailing in… which guess what… those are also failing to come through!

  Don’t touch Revolt/Stoat. It’s no better.

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• Marvie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Honest question, would something like stoat allow forum threads like in discord but being accessible through a classic forum style webpage through matrix protocol in order for it to beindexed by the wider web?

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    but being accessible through a classic forum style webpage through matrix protocol

    Why would you do this though…

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    • Marvie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Because one of the things I find most annoying about discord is how the information is much less accessible. Before you could search something on google and find some niche forum talking about it. Nowadays that forum is probably a discord server and the information is hard to find

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        How does running it through Matrix solve that problem?

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