Monday afternoon, they seem to have still been sending verification emails manually.

The voice chat sound quality is a massive improvement over Discord's, and once they resolve the key issues surrounding voice chat it will be a very solid Discord alternative.

That said, the head dev is an MLP fan, which gives me some hope for content permissibility. The team has been very responsive; when the problems with AI were pointed out to them, they reverted the three commits involving it within ten minutes. In addition, they are still in pretty early beta; as of

Key downsides to Stoat:
--no video/screenshare (in beta)
--limited voice controls (no ptt, limited noise suppression)
--they are UK-based and block UK users from seeing NSFW-marked channels at all, they don't even see the age gate, for legal reasons
--also very laggy right now

wild as *fuck*.

WAIT PEOPLE ARE MAKING RYAN HALL DEEPFAKES?