Teamspeak sounds familiar, I think I had issues with them once before. Is it the one bundled with that OverWolf malware?
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MiahNelah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Switching to a self-hosted good old Teamspeak 6. Their screen sharing is very good, and audio quality is far above Discord. Overall it’s still need some polish but is okay.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
TeamSpeak is basically what Discord replaced in many gaming communities/servers/groups. Before discord, most gaming groups would have a TeamSpeak, Ventrillo or Mumble server. These were self hosted (or hosted in a VPS) and generally worked better than Skype. TeamSpeak was the most polished, Ventrillo was kinda dated looking but worked well and Mumble was the free software that was getting started and is now pretty good
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
I personally treated Discord as a replacement for Skype, I used to chat with close friends on there for years before Microsoft purchased it.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah back in the day my friend group was on Skype as well as jumping onto whatever vc server was setup for whatever Minecraft server we were on. Skype was too bloated and bogged the system down especially if trying to do a voice call while playing a game on my old single core Pentium circa 2010ish
MiahNelah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think TS3 is bundled with Overwolf, but not TS6. I can be wrong.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Isn’t that closed source tho?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe, but let’s deal with one crisis at a time
cmhe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But isn’t that the wrong approach?
If you want to choose something better, shouldn’t be ‘enshittificationability’ be the main point you want to address? That is the reason discord is doing most of the bad stuff. Proprietary software is about enshittification.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No.
The main point that needs to be addressed is the requirement to upload your face or government ID. This exodus has nothing to do with Discord not being Open Source.
neshura@bookwyr.me 3 weeks ago
I mean the issue at hand is discord enshittifying, TeamSpeak has been around for a lot longer and didn’t do that (even when they were in discords position market wise) which also mlght be because their funding model is actually sustainable.
Sure they might enshittify later down the line anway but it’s an alternative that’s here now and solves the ossue at hand
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I mean, mumble has gotten super good at audio, but I don’t know about other features
MiahNelah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
True. At least it’s self-hosted. I just hope some real alternative to Discord comes soon.
markz@suppo.fi 3 weeks ago
Should still be a massive upgrade to discord in terms of how much you’re getting shafted