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Voice Chat Alternative from Discord
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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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SonoBus:
https://sonobus.net/
It’s dead simple, free, P2P, and designed for remote music collaboration, so much lower latency than Discord. Even compression is optional and configurable, and it includes built in, tweakable filtering and gain settings.
And it works on everything. Android, iOS, desktop, all without any login. There’s a public server to start the initial connection (after which it’s purely P2P), but that’s self hostable if you wish.
It is a crime it’s so obscure. It’s basically perfect voice calling (and only voice calling), as long as everyone’s internet isn’t truly awful.
My friend lives in the UK while I'm based in Austral-Asia region, and I'm honestly not tech savvy enough for P2P or self hosting...
I also unfortunately don't have the best WiFi (MediaTek on a Lenovo Laptop in the great 2026...)
There's nothing to it, you literally just download an app, text your friend the server name and it connects. And if you have enough bandwidth for Discord or Lemmy, this will work too.
The big caveat is if your internet is bad enough to drop packets or randomly drop out a ton, it's going to cut your audio off. Discord would work really poorly too, but it would more aggressively auto-reconnect and buffer.