Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked

MiahNelah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t that closed source tho?

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe, but let’s deal with one crisis at a time

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    • 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.

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      • 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.

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      • 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

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, mumble has gotten super good at audio, but I don’t know about other features

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  • MiahNelah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    True. At least it’s self-hosted. I just hope some real alternative to Discord comes soon.

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  • markz@suppo.fi ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Should still be a massive upgrade to discord in terms of how much you’re getting shafted

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• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • 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

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    • 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.

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      • 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

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  • MiahNelah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think TS3 is bundled with Overwolf, but not TS6. I can be wrong.

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