The thing is do you even need to replace it?
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Tetsuo@jlai.lu 18 hours agoSure.
But what are you replacing it with ?
I tried Mumble and Teamspeak in the past and it’s pretty far from the same level of comfort.
Don’t take that the wrong way though, I’m all for supporting open alternatives, I’m just saying you have to think about the alternatives too.
I just saw something about Stoat.chat but a lot of people will have to bear the cost of self hosting these servers.
I know I will think carefully before slamming the door on discord.
itsmorgantime@lemmy.radio 17 hours ago
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 17 hours ago
Well yes, I would say it’s very much an integral part of mt social life.
I spend a lot of time with my gamer friends and it revolves around our discord servers.
We even have a discord servers dedicated to our role play sessions.
IMHO Discord is a bit more than just a voice chat app. It’s also rooms with persistant chats. It’s the ability to share media etc.
Also their noose reduction tech is top notch.
I knew when I got in that it would be another “Gmail” for me. It’s great but you have to give a bit of your soul to it and I knew it would enshitify eventually.
itsmorgantime@lemmy.radio 17 hours ago
Fair enough, while I use discord it is not as big a part of my social life as it is for you. I only have a few servers I am in, and even then I am only active part of the time and not a “super user” by any means.
That is the unfortunate thing about nearly every app/website/software that the enshittification happens sooner than we would like. I’m hoping that this is a bigger non-issue than what it seems based on the announcement, and even then, only time will tell.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 17 hours ago
For context my country (France) is trying to pass a law that forbids the use of social networks to users younger than 15yo. So I suppose this move from Discord is partly due to that.
Now that being said I would hope the verification process will have much more scrutiny in Europe than it would in the US.
I would definitely not be happy about it but if they are not allowed to keep any of the verification data afterwards it could be “acceptable”. But if I have the feeling they keep any data I will actively look into building a Stoat instance and try the even harder task of convincing my friends to switch over.
Willoughby@piefed.world 15 hours ago
I see luck with “combos”
XMPP + Mumble is a common one. The room is on XMPP, some users are in a mumble server with info in the topic.
Matrix is buggy and doesn’t scale imo, it isn’t a sustainable alternative. Stoat looks like a great option and there are lots of open instances.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 16 hours ago
Yes, many of my childhood best friends live a 9 hour flight away.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Were you trying Teamspeak 6? The UI is different, but the functionality is on par I believe. Not open source, but at least you can self-host.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
You can selfhost TS6 now? O:
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Have they finally released screen sharing in ts6? I gotta say that the development of that project is pretty comical. Radio silence with the only communication being the community manager shitting on discord every other day while giving no updates on their own product.
Weird vibes.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
I haven’t followed the development communication much, but yes, screen sharing works now. It wasn’t working on wayland like 8mo ago, but I tried again a month ago and it’s now working.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 16 hours ago
No. Recently I played a bit using a friends mumble server. And it’s a friend that is already privacy conscious. But these friends are not the norm. They are the exception.
Interesting to see Teamspeak evolved but still you have to pay to host a server so that’s a huge difference.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
I haven’t tried mumble yet.
You pay for the hosting resources yes, but you can host it anywhere. I’ve been playing around with it using a docker instance in my homelab.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
I did start a projects aiming to be a more decentralized/federated discord more akin to how IRC was back in the day. Time to revisit it, it seems.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 16 hours ago
A federation based discord would be amazing !
But still that’s a big challenge as voice chat will be costly to host.
Also out of curiosity do you aim for something that would connect through the fediverse ?
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Voice chat isn’t inherently costly to host, usually the server acts as a broker and then people connect P2P. Do you remember jitsi? It was used as an alternative to zoom during covid, it was a webpage like Google meet where you opened a room, and people joined with the link. Actually under the good the first one that joined the room acted as a host so all voice communications never reached jitsi’s servers.
Jitsi still exists btw, although I understand that a more integrated solution like matrix is preferable. Matrix IS the federated discord-like solution, although last time I read about it it had some issues with scalability and the typical foss Dev drama.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Didn’t have much of an aim beyond trying to cook it up from scratch as a personal research project. That includes the protocol, since I’m handling keys in a creative way to facilitate both encryption and user “authentication”.
Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I’ll swap to a shared calendar and any other voice chat software. Sure I can’t post on those but that’s why we also have a group chat for the different gaming groups I’m in.
Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Stoat looks promising, open source
stoat.chat/download
shelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
They won’t even send a verification email to my gmail account so I can sign up.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 53 minutes ago
They were suffering with email issues due to the “hug of death” effect, try again now maybe it’ll work
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Same :)