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Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access (discord.com)
submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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    • Beginning with a phased global rollout to new and existing users in early March, users may be required to engage in an age-verification process to change certain settings or access sensitive content. This includes age-restricted channels, servers, or commands and select message requests.

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    [–] Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 9 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

    https://stoat.chat/download

    Stoat looks promising as an open source alternative

    [–] Marvie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

    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?

    [–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] Marvie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

    As far as I understand it can be somewhat federated using the matrix protocol? https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/stoat/

    [–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

    Looks promising...

    but why is it always electron?

    [–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

    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.

    [–] quips@slrpnk.net 7 points 11 hours ago

    FOR REAL BRO

    [–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

    Misconfiguration with SMTP is likely or their SMTP server is under maintenance and you just tried at a poor time.

    Granted for a production environment there should be some notice to users.