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Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access (discord.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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    • Beginning with a phased global rollout to new and existing users in early March, users may be required to engage in an age-verification process to change certain settings or access sensitive content. This includes age-restricted channels, servers, or commands and select message requests.

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    [–] 9 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    https://stoat.chat/download

    Stoat looks promising as an open source alternative

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Looks promising...

    but why is it always electron?

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  • [+] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months 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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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

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

    Granted for a production environment there should be some notice to users.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months 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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  • [–] 1 point 9 months 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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