Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

tostiman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Ventrilo + signal

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  • tostiman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This? You’re joking, right? Image

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Voice chat works fine, you can text chat and send pics via signal.

      Works for me.

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      • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        1. A lot of people use Discord only from their phones. I vastly prefer using a PC so I can’t imagine why anyone would opt in to using phones only, but many people do. This is not an alternative for those people if it can only be downloaded on a PC.

        2. Come on man, no one is going to use some Windows-XP-ass program like that lol

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  • earthwormjim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    or Mumble + IRC

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• Murdoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Stoat?

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  • kcseb@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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    • Murdoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I just signed up yesterday, and yeah, it took almost a day to get my verification, but it worked. I haven’t seen any extremism yet, but I’m still new. I’ll look into the development thing.

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  • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’ve heard (though not personally confirmed) that their servers are overwhelmed

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    • Murdoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I just signed up yesterday, and yeah, it took almost a day to get my verification, but it worked. And the rest seems to work fine.

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