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Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 10 points 9 months ago (12 children)

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

    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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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Murmur (mumble server) is so light it can run on a smart toaster.

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

    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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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

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

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

    Stoat has vc, but I haven't had the chance to try it with someone else yet.

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