With the recent news about discord asking for face or ID scan, what other alternatives are there that we can recommend to our less tech-savvy friends?
With the recent news about discord asking for face or ID scan, what other alternatives are there that we can recommend to our less tech-savvy friends?
I want to say Stoat… However I’m struggling to even create an account… And I have much more patience than my less-savvy friends.
If like me, you care less about servers and the “social media” aspect, and are just searching for group messaging, voice/video chat with screen-sharing capabilities, then Signal Desktop will suffice. That is what I’m preparing to suggest. You can now also sign up without a phone number which is a bonus.
That should work fine, at least until Stoat matures. As a bonus, doubles down as a replacement to Whatsapp: two birds, one stone.
Stoat are experiencing problems due to the large increase in numbers, marking them as spam. Until this is fixed, just contact their official support e-mail and they’ll get you set up manually.
I know. I contacted them, but I still cannot sign in. I am getting “try again later” error messages when signing in for the first time. When checking the browser console, it says InvalidCredentials, despite me being certain I am using the correct ones.
I got an error massage first as well. Replied with a screenshot and the 2nd link they sent me worked.
Dont say stoat. Revolt failed and renamed to stoat instead of writing any code. The project is as mismanaged as Tox.
Your current options are:
Jitsi, Matrix, Simplex and Mumble
Thanks for the info on Stoat. Unfortunately, all those options either objectively aren’t alternatives, or they have major limitations.
Yup. Combine more than one for now. There is no real alternative here.
Seems to be under active development?
In the past year all they’ve really done is rename. It’s still pre-alpha and seems like they’re all front end devs
I thought they did a complete rewrite of the voice/video stuff?