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Is mumble still a thing? It was the best for low latency and automatic mic pickup/ nouse cancelling back in the day.
whatever happened to meeting up with your mom's house on a bunch of folding tables in the living room
Those must be some big tables
This feels like it's happening way too soon. Sure, at the current pace I would expect an exodus from discord eventually, but I didn't believe that there was so many proactive people on the platform.
Anyway, TeamSpeak has always been great. Discord voice can be rather unstable as you add more people to a chat, or depending on the locations of the people in it.
stoat.chat seems like a good alternative.
UK based, soon to implement identity verification, unfederated
Fluxer.app seems just slightly better.
why go from one corporate property to another when enshitification is the problem and libre options are available??
tomorrow's headline: "Teamspeak CEO excited to be working with Discord"
Matrix has the best architecture by far. The only feature it lacks is high fps screenshare with audio. Right now its only acceptable for like a powerpoint presentation.
When the update fixing that comes it will finally be ready to fully replace discord.
I often fall back to Molly for video chat, the quality is superior
Sticking with discord for slightly better video doesn't sound reasonable
I ended up running the element-call stack for our matrix server. Has worked great for group vid calls and screen sharing so far. I don't think it had audio for screen shares, the only item missing from your list
Been on IRC for like 3-decades and is where I get my media content, mostly. Highly recommended if you give zero shits about fancy text!
how do you get media isnt it only plain text?
VENT or nothing!
Iirc Ventrilo doesn't support Linux, or it's codecs don't. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong!
I said that the other day and I got back "noone is going to use that windows XP lookin shit."
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Teamspeak is not a good replacement lol
it's what other people used to be familiar with though, so that's probably why. also - can't you download and host your own teamspeak server? I haven't used it in so long I can't remember how it works haha
Yes you can host your own team speak server on your own.
I would recommend a FLOSS alternative, to help the odds of you being able to keep it within your control. There's a few options others have mentioned around the fediverse.
We’re setting up our own Matrix/Element CE and mulling over the non-technical folks’ fumbling trying to figure it out. Going to have to test a lot. Stoat is promising since it has a familiar UI, but we have a large amount of mobile-only friends.
Not even looking at the non-free stuff. This is the shove we needed to finally move off that type of crap.
Forgot about XMPP until reading earlier comments. Will have to put that on the list.
We’re setting up our own Matrix/Element CE and mulling over the non-technical folks’ fumbling trying to figure it out.
Commet might be more helpful there than Element, as it tries to replicate Discord's UI and UX, making for an easier transition.
Nice. I'll have to check that out. I appreciate it.
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