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I was quite out of the loop, but it sems like TeamSpeak 6 is now a full fledged self-hostable Discord alternative? TeamSpeak 6 Is Back: New Design, Screen Sharing, and More (www.tech2geek.net)
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Discover the exciting new features of TeamSpeak 6, including a complete redesign, screen sharing capabilities, and community server management, all aimed at improving user experience in gaming communication.

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[–] 80 points 9 months ago (19 children)

Still closed source proprietary software, but good for them.

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (18 children)

    Still better than Discord's age verification

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  • [–] 33 points 9 months ago (16 children)

    Until it's just as bad. Just move to Stoat (formerly Revolt) or Fermi.chat and save yourself the headache of another centralized platform going to shit.

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  • [+] 23 points 9 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I've been following Stoat, their documentation states that self hosted voice channels don't work (I think their official server does though), and also you have to recompile their client software to hard code the link to your server.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    That feels so much like niche coder hobbyist hurdles that I really doubt people en masse would make the switch by themselves.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Yeah I'm really hoping they just add a button in the client to connect to a custom server (like how Bitwarden works), as well as actually update the self hosting images and instructions. I've been keeping tabs on them for almost a year now, and still no progress on that front.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    As someone else said, stoat isnt federated. It also doesnt have E2EE. Meaning in practice, you are still using a centralized service that can enshitify. You could self host, but your friends aren't going to switch to your small self hosted instance if everyone is on the central server.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Or Matrix, which is federated.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    It's decentralized, not federated I thought...? Are there other services that use the Matrix protocol?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Federated means that different servers can talk to each other and decentralized means that there is no server.

    There is also nothing stopping someone from using the Matrix protocol to create another service, though I don't know of one that exists.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    and decentralised means there is no server

    no, it means there's no central server. You still need a Matrix server to handle communications, but there's no "central matrix server", the servers discover each other based on a baked-in "known good" server list + ad-hoc discovery (e.g. if a server has a group chat with a member of a server your server doesn't know yet, and you join that group chat, your server and the unknown one exchange metadata and so on).

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