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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

I looked into Stoat around the time of their name change announcement.

On the one hand it looks good and is definitely the closest Discord clone at the moment. I was disappointed about a couple of things though:

  • They have a self hosted server option but it doesn’t have the full feature suite and seems like they’ve decided that it won’t in the foreseeable future.

  • They’re aware of federation and have no plans to head down that path for the software.

Bit of a shame because if I could self host the full software that’d be pretty damn good as a replacement for all of my friends. If it could be federated in a way where servers could work in tandem that’d be a great distributed alternative to Discord for the entire community! I understand why they’re not pursuing those avenues but it’s still a shame.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    While I would like to see those options explored, I don't think they're strictly necessary. For now, it's a reasonable alternative, and the open source code means that a self-hosted and/or federated fork is always possible.

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