Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing
US group has sought to broaden its appeal to a mass audience
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How about Mumble? It's free, open sourced, encrypted, and with temporary chats with the ability to share images with ease.
Mumble is a terrific VOIP program. It's audio quality and reliability are WAY better than discord. But it does not nearly have enough features to be a good replacement. It's missing features like being able to stream in-app, share videos, keep and pin messages in different channels, pinging system for people and groups... The list goes on. These are features that groups and communities have come to rely on.
An analogy would be like comparing an incredibly good tent to a shitty house. While the tent is probably comfier to sleep in, eventually you're going to want things like outlets, kitchen appliances, toilets, and showers which make the shitty house the better long-term choice.
Doesn’t have a cup holder either! Why does ever alternative need to have every feature or it can’t be called an alternative? Does your VoIP app need the ability to send videos? Can you not use something else in tandem to do the more social side? Sometimes it’s better to focus on one thing & do it well—especially under-resourced like free software often is. You could argue just as easily these other features as bloat if you don’t want or use them.
That's the point, discord isn't just a VoIP app. It has all that other stuff too. 90% of my discord usage is text based. But IRC is dead now, so it is what it is. I was just as pissed about it when discord initially came around as I am now, but this is what we're stuck with until something new takes over
But you can use a chat service for chat & a VoIP service for VoIP & that can be fine. A kitchen sink isn’t always the best approach.
But if you are looking to keep tabs on something, Movim is very much focused on multi-user jingle & is something you could deploy & have decentralized users join from their own servers.
I shouldn't have to explain the network effect to you on Lemmy of all places. You go make all the specific communities that I need switch over, and I'll be right there with them.
So you are saying we should all use Reddit, Discord, Meta WhatsApp, & Microsoft GitHub since more folks are there? The only way to buck those trends is to be the change you want to see & slowly move what groups you can away. You don’t have to get everything to buy in at once & there are mirrors / gateways that you can use as a transition. Make a clan homepage & say the VoIP is here & the chat is there… now you aren’t beholden to one specific tool going to shit or waiting 10 years for something to have literally every feature you want. If 2 applications is a barrier, maybe that someone isn’t the right fit for your group anyhow.
Man you are autistic as fuck
K. Have fun doing nothing & sticking to your shitty networks that give you no control or freedom—as opposed to trying literally anything to change the situation.
You're still doing it