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Discord Alternatives, Ranked (taggart-tech.com)
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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 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.

[–] neshura@bookwyr.me 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] hornedfiend@piefed.social 1 points 23 hours ago (1 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.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 13 hours ago (1 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

[–] hornedfiend@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 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.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world -5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.