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.
Deleted that dogshit (dc) eons ago
Mumble still exists and isn’t proprietary…
Voice only though, doesn’t really have chat rooms or streaming support.
Also, Matrix. And for voice/video … cat /dev/video0 | nc
I still can’t make the server run on Linux for some reason, seems like everything network related (Zerotier, Xlink and Mumble server) that I use for gaming just doesn’t work for me on Linux.
It’s weird because Jellyfin worked without tinkering.But yeah, I feel like Mumble sounds better than Discord too.
Is “so back” in the title supposed to be interpreted as a hip slang phrase?
Term popularized with trumps presidency. Lots of blue check accounts tweeting “America is so back” and “We are so back”
Thanks for the context. Guess I never read that crap.
It’s streets ahead!
Presumably
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.
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.
Ye, they’ve been working on a not-discord for a while now
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?
Not really. I mostly used Element, but I also tried fractal which seemed decent.
The tough thing is that the supported features are changing rapidly, so what might be a good client one year might be out of date the next year. I also had a lot of issues with Element randomly logging me out on my self-hosted server :/
hey sorry I have another question. Im curious about self-hosted with a chat program. Do you run it 24x7? One of the things with self hosted as far as mbin/lemmy/mastadon is if the instance is down it won’t be available so running it from a laptop lets say were it is on and off would seem problematic (maybe its not and I am making it an issue in my head). Chat feels like it might work but im wondering about if someone sends you a message while the host is down. will it be able to get the message when the host is back up the next day? if you know given you may be running yours 24x7.
yes, I run my matrix server 24/7. I’m not really the expert on this, but I believe the way federation works on matrix is that downtime means that users on that instance will not be able to see/write messages, but users on other messages will still be able to write messages, which will later be picked up by the crashed instance when it comes back up. Not sure how it affects rooms.
you know its not like it will hurt to try. thanks for the feedback.
thanks. I would do element X but its seems to be phone only. Ill give element a try.
