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Discord was already succumbing to enshitification. Now with their intention to be owned by Wall Street, that trajectory will certainly accelerate at warp speed once the change of hands happens.

Anyone already get ahead of this and find a solid alternative?

Right now I'm on the fence between Element for Matrix, and Revolt. Both seem to have their pros and cons and I can't find a clear "winner".

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 16 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

There is also Mumble. TS3 era voip and text chat features, but it's FOSS.

[–] Forester@pawb.social 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It was so featureless back when I last used it. I don't remember it having half the features ts3 had in 14

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Oh, it's basic af. But it did what it needed to do, and still does, for some.

I havent used it in ages, I have no clue what sort of stuff continued development has enabled. If anything.

My friend group went first from Skype to the massively better TS3, and finally to Mumble. I don't remember really missing anything.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If they add federation I'm sold. Honestly it would be nice if it integrated with Activity Pub

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 13 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It's not that kind of application. Federation would be massive overkill for a project like Mumble.

It's a voip server and client for video gaming, with a couple adjacent features sprinkled in.

It doesn't even really have accounts, and adding servers is just matter of configuring their IPs. What would you even use federation for?