Mumble still exists and isn’t proprietary…
Also, Matrix. And for voice/video … cat /dev/video0 | nc
I like Mumble, it’s a simple and effective alternative to TeamSpeak.
Voice only though, doesn’t really have chat rooms or streaming support.
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And is about as bare bones as you can get. Sorry, but that just doesn’t cut it today. People have moved on from ONLY needing VOIP. Sharing images, videos, text, etc. is a big part of gaming communities now. Even small groups will want to share info from time to time that Mumble just can’t do well.
Suggesting Mumble is like suggesting someone get a bike when they’re asking what type of car they should get. Yea, sure, you can make a bunch of arguments for why a bike is better and why cars are bad, but at the end of the day; if the person is wanting an actual car, your suggestion is not helpful, useful, or appreciated.
Is “so back” in the title supposed to be interpreted as a hip slang phrase?
It’s streets ahead!
Presumably
Term popularized with trumps presidency. Lots of blue check accounts tweeting “America is so back” and “We are so back”
TeamSpeak never left for me. I’ve been running my own server for years now and a couple of friends and me still use it all the time.
Revolt looks promising. It’s a discord clone but open source, can self host too.
I am a fan of self hosting, a year ago revolt was not quite ready to go yet. I might have another look
It’s rather a lot with 12 docker containers to run, I wonder what the resource usage is like.
Bring back Vent cowards!
Be the change you want to see in the world and run your own server. According to Wikipedia, Vent was updated in 2023, so apparently it’s not completely dead, yet.
I was mostly joking but that is actually interesting.
I wish Matrix video calls worked better so it could take over
Element call worked great for me for the last year, it lacks integration with clients, that’s the real problem.
any opinions on the various clients assuming linux laptop?
Ye, they’ve been working on a not-discord for a while now
Why not matrix ? (Or even XMPP)
Matrix is text only isint it?
No its got voice calls with jitsi implementation along with their own built in “element chat” that has been implemented or is still being tested to be implemented.
That and 1 on 1 calls work out of the box with no jitsi or element chat configuration. (Still need coturn)
Ill be real i could get that going on my end but 99% of my friends wont even try if it doesn’t work out of the box
If it has the power to kill discord, I’m all for it. But paying for servers? I don’t think that’s it, chief.
You can selfhost the server. If you ain’t paying a corpo for something, you are their product.
Sadly, there is no screen share at selfhosted servers (it has to be ts6 servers, which are paywalled for now)
I don’t understand how someone makes it to Lemmy without grasping that fundamental concept.
The fastest way to make me not download a particular piece of software is to invite me to join their discord to discuss questions and tech support.
TeamSpeak was never “here” in the first place, it certainly had its niche among certain gaming communities, but it - never - had as much traction as Discord does today. I am sure a design refresh is going to lure some older gamers back, but I am unconvinced it’ll even make a dent in Discord usage.
“internet thing from 20 years ago was smaller than big, VC backed social media giant from today. Therefore, thing that was defacto standard 20 years ago was never relevant” is a hell of a take
Pc gaming was a lot smaller back then too. More serious communities all had a vent or teams peak. That only started to die down when xfire came out and brought anothed influx of non pc people (or someone thst only played one game like ever quest) into gaming spaces.
Less centralized services is a good thing. As long as self hosting isn’t intentionally worse in some way I see this as a great thing for competition. I don’t want discord viewing my data, and I don’t want to pay them to be able to share a video over 8mb with what is essentially the new form of group chat for a lot of people.
Just use Mumble!!
