If we don't warn them about it they'll obviously be unhappy they should knowww!

(In reality they get confused, they leave, and then they keep using the corpo controlled version)

I wonder if my MIL's mugshot would be good enough.

Always assume anything you post outside of some messaging apps has hit the public domain and will be used, sold and targeted. This is scarcely a Discord-only problem.

Until Discord starts classifying anything and everything as adult content, TikTok style. Can't curse, can't talk about any form of violence. Good luck talking about most video games when you can't say "gun", "kill" or "die".

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.

I see rocket chat is used by the US Army and Air Force.

Not sure how secure that is.

And Mattermost is used by the US Air Force and Space Force, so same issue

Teamspeak, Mumble? These were popular for gaming communities, not sure what happened to these apps

I looked in stoat's issue tracker and there is an issue asking for video chat which is 5 years old and still open. Safe to say it's a dead project.

The main thing I will miss from discord is the ease of streaming with a small group of friends. That was main reason we chose it over alternatives back in the day.

Ah yes let me open up a voice chat of a forum.

Discord is terrible for assistance.

Search is ineffective, you have to actually fight the UI to go back to older messages, depending on the device there are still somehow cases in which you can't go back to the beginning of a thread. But thank you for putting a huge reminder that I am currently "reading through old messages", silly me, why would I want to do that.

Oh, you're trying to scroll down through old posts? Let me suddenly refresh the list for no reason and bring you back to the most recent ones. Everything past the third screen might as well not exist anymore.

And of course, there is the slight problem of every useful info written there being completely invisible to the rest of the internet.

It was one of the first to make voice chat really really easy for gamers. Yes vent and ts existed before, but discord made it soooo easy and had integrated irc-style chat

It's easier to set up than a forum. I suppose. But messier.

A forum is much better suited for the purpose a lot of people are using Discord for.

They should be using Discord for voice chat and streaming, that's what it's good at. Use a fairly tool for what it does well. Not for what it does poorly.

Everything I've said is everybody is categorize as a teen unless the provide face/ID verification. So anonymous should still be allowed in general, just not to servers/channels set as age restricted.

Same.

If someone isn't willing to take a minimum amount of effort to stay in contact with me, then I'm not losing much if I don't ever talk to them again. They don't have to quit Discord, they just have to find me elsewhere.

I joined a Matrix group, and the UX frustrated one person so much, they just quit. Kinda surprised me some people care about UX that much. I guess I'm used to using software developed by hobbyists, lol.

Matrix voice and video chat is sadly under-equipped for the only kind of thing I want (team gaming and screen share). They are working on moving to a new realtime media transport but until it manifests I can't see it as an alternative. I've read about Revolt and some others but I don't see anything that seems capable. Happy to be corrected on this!

EDIT: it looks like Element Call is more or less ready, might try setting up a server this weekend.