• Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago

    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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      1 day ago

      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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      1 day ago

      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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        19 hours ago

        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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          18 hours ago

          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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            14 hours 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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      1 day ago

      I‘m surprised Stoat is gaining so much traction here. It‘s no open source and will likely go down the same path as Discord if given the chance.