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Discord delay global rollout of age verification to improve transparency and add more options (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[+] 5 points 8 months ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Nether of them are your friends. Fluxor seems a bit sketchy with their limited time cash grab of lifetime memberships, and GitHub history compression. Stoat is basically discord 8 years ago and is in the UK where age verification is law. It has time to change and their privacy policy doesn't look great (they also collect information from you).

    Fluxor could be fine, I am just skeptical of it at the moment.

    Stoat is better than discord, but not by much.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    No, the red flag is being 'self-hostable', but trying to concentrate all your users in a central, non-federated, monetised instance.

    Also, we cannot verify how long they where in development because they squashed their git commits. There's usually no good reason to do that.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Movim seems like a much better option, they just need a few weeks to get a couple of extra features out

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Tell me more?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    https://movim.eu/

    It's based on XMPP, which means it's open-source, federated, and has E2EE in private chats. It also supports video calls, including in groups (which most other Discord alternatives have problems with).

    Also, there's no phone number or even email requirement to sign up. You can set a recovery email, but you can skip that step during setup. Just pick a server, username, and password

    The main thing it's missing right now is "places" aka what Discord calls servers/guilds. But they're currently working to roll that feature out soon

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    https://slrpnk.net/post/34490207

    haven't gotten around to trying it myself. But the fact that it's built on XMPP is cool, and I hate that that all these new clients seem to develop their own new standards rather than build off what already exists.

    Sounds like movim as a project has been around for a while, but recently moved to be more discord like in intention, so it's picked up interest there.

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