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victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Anybody here who have a good recommendation for something as simple as Discord with audio lobbies? I see all these recommendations for alternative platforms and software which mostly focus on the community/forum aspect of Discord, and not the things Discord was meant to be used for: talking with your buddies while gaming.

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victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I used Mumble before Discord was a thing, but the self-hosting a server thing got a bit old, and required me to keep my PC on at all times in case my buddies wanted to play games and chat when I wasn’t available.

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- Willdrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Murmur (mumble server) is so light it can run on a smart toaster.
  
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  - victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Right, but I only have my PC.
    
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    Willdrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Fair enough. I was hosting it for years on a borked ideapad with like a 4th gen i3 along some other stuff
    
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squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Teamspeak. It’s old and it’s still good. Uses no resources at all compared to Discord and there are thousands of free servers if you don’t want to host one yourself.

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- victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah? I’ve heard about that since I was young, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to enshittify for some reason. But I thought it was made by a company. Oh well, might give it a go. Thank you.
  
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  - squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Teamspeak is proprietary software, but it’s self-hosted and there’s an opensource TS3 client.
    
    Since it’s self-hosted, enshittification is rather limited. If the new version sucks, anyone could just run an older version instead, so their are in constant competition with their own older versions.
    
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    victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Ooh, that’s a good position to be in from the users’ perspective. 👌 Thanks!
    
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Yttra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Stoat has vc, but I haven’t had the chance to try it with someone else yet.

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- victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Any reason why anything not self hosted won’t be subject to enshittification down the line? 🥲
  
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- Clasm@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Text has been a little sluggish with my tests. Might be due to influx of users, though.
  
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  - victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    As long as the voice is solid, I’m good with that.
    
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