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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've read that Stoat is bad for self-hosting, something about calls/video broadcasting not being part of the docker image, and needing to compile from source with every update?

I spent most of my day searching, spinning up containers, and discussing with friends and users on my discord 'server' about what to do. I burned out after a few hours of frustration. I had Mumble up and running a year ago but that was a bit too techy for new users, and it's not really the 'community' feature set that I'd want...