Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default “teen-appropriate” experience unless it has proof that users are adults.
The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.
Are there any viable alternatives? Last I looked they all kinda sucked
I wanna start by saying I’m not a power user, I only use discord as a glorified chat manager for my immediate friends. That said, Stoat is everything I like about discord with a nicer ui and a public server seach function. I made an account when discord started ads and I honestly feel like it’s a little further than Lemmy was when I came here from reddit.
Right now sign up is slow because of the huge influx of users. That said, the team is handling it well and being very transparent about it which is refreshing.
I love Stoat’s UI but video streaming is an absolute must for My use case and last I checked they said it wasn’t a priority
Ahh that’s fair.
I’ve been hearing good things about https://spacebar.chat/. Stoat (formerly Revolt) is out there as well. Matrix is another possibility, but it’s more for individual channels rather than whole servers, so doesn’t fit some use cases.
Does it have video streaming yet?
Sounds like it’s experimental at the moment:
https://docs.spacebar.chat/faq/
So might not be ready for primetime. Voice is pretty critical to how I often use Discord. Video less so, but still important.