wesker comments on Discord Alternatives, Ranked

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 7 months ago* (9 children)

If Stoat (formerly Revolt) can integrate screen sharing capabilities soon enough, they will be the closest, user-friendly experience to Discord. Even the UI is familiar, if you come from Discord.

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[–] neshura@bookwyr.me 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Apparently that's already in the backend since december, they're just getting their infrastructure up to snuff before they enable it

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago

If they enable that and iron out the iOS app, it'd be a surefire migration for my whole crew.

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[–] hornedfiend@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I can't even create an account on Stoat yet. New account confirmation emails take hours to arrive and by the time they do, they are already expired.

This is not a discord alternative yet and not be for a long time most likely.

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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They're having issues with their email provider due to the hug of death effect, they did not expect to get so much traffic so fast

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[–] hornedfiend@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I understand, but they are losing the train I guess. People are giving up easily when they need a solution fast.

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[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

Their loss. They have at least a month to migrate, probably more before most users get forced to verify, there is no rush. That and an ad-free hobby-run project like Stoat doesn't gain anything from a massive user increase unless it correlates to an increase in devs or money.

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