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?

  • serpineslair@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    12 hours ago

    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.

    • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.website
      15·
      11 hours ago

      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.

      • serpineslair@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        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.