BeepFeb 9

Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access

https://lemmus.org/post/20054044

Show threadEager EagleFeb 9
I hope that discourages open source projects and similar communities from using discord as forum / user support.
Show threadSineljora

stoat.chat/download

Stoat looks promising as an open source alternative

Download Stoat for Desktop and Mobile

Stoat is the chat app where you are the main character.

Feb 9 at 9:37pmWeb
Show threadRandAlThorFeb 9
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.
Show threadohshit604Feb 9
Misconfiguration with SMTP is likely or their SMTP server is under maintenance and you just tried at a poor time.
Show threadUlrichFeb 10
Which is a great reason to dump SMTP altogether. It’s a messaging platform FFS. If you need to send someone a message, do it on the platform.
Show threadkcSebFeb 10
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.
Show threadFalschgeldFurkanFeb 9

Looks promising…

~…but why is it always electron…~

Show threadquipsFeb 9
FOR REAL BRO
Show threadGlitchvidFeb 10
Because people want fancy animations, images, videos, stylized text, etc. And the easiest way to accomplish that is to just use a browser under the hood.
Show threadTurret3857Feb 10
Theyve been around for a few years and I’m still not really impressed. No E2EE, No federation if the people running it go belly up. You might as well use signal ATP.
Show threadMarvieFeb 10
As far as I understand it can be somewhat federated using the matrix protocol? https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/stoat/
Stoat

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Show threadTurret3857Feb 10
This isn’t federation, its a bridge. Theres also a bridge for Discord, Telegram and Signal, but none of those are federated either
Show threadMarvieFeb 10
Ah I get it now!
Show threadMarvieFeb 10
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?
Show threadUlrichFeb 10

but being accessible through a classic forum style webpage through matrix protocol

Why would you do this though…

Show threadMarvieFeb 10
Because one of the things I find most annoying about discord is how the information is much less accessible. Before you could search something on google and find some niche forum talking about it. Nowadays that forum is probably a discord server and the information is hard to find
Show threadUlrichFeb 10
How does running it through Matrix solve that problem?
Show threadMarvieFeb 10
It doesn’t, I just like the matrix protocol for privacy.
Show threadkcSebFeb 10

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.