Discord has announced that it's rolling out age verification checks globally from March – and the decision has sparked fury from many privacy-conscious users.
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.
Come on man, no one is going to use some Windows-XP-ass program like that lol
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!
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.
There really isn’t a good alternative to Discord, sadly. Yes, I’ve tried Matrix
Ventrilo + signal
or Mumble + IRC
This? You’re joking, right?
Voice chat works fine, you can text chat and send pics via signal.
Works for me.
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.
Come on man, no one is going to use some Windows-XP-ass program like that lol
Sir, this is the fediverse, we all have xp-ass programs running on our PCs, despite them being linux.
Second, people just might have to change how they do things slightly (gasp!). They might even have to…LEARN something new!
Stoat?
I’ve heard (though not personally confirmed) that their servers are overwhelmed
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.
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.
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.