Pretty much what it says on the tin, but for more context. My friends and I use Discord to play D&D and other TTRPGs. We also use it to send memes and just have conversations. We mostly do the chat, text, images, gifs, etc. But we also use the voice and video chat pretty regularly too. Screen share sometimes as well. So I'd like to try to find something that has all those features if possible.

The new ID or facial recognition requirement they are implementing is a deal breaker for a few of us, and so if I can set up some kind of alternative to make it a non-issue, I'd like to.

I'm running Ubunutu 22.04 LETS, AMD 3700X, 64GBRAM, 10x 6TB HDD, and and 2 4TB NVmE. Have a 2gb up/down internet connection. So I don't think we should have any issues making it work smoothly for 7 people.

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[–] 20 points 8 months ago (25 children)

Honestly the name choice adds difficulty in getting friends to take it seriously. Why did they pick "stoat"

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Nowadays everyone accepted the name "Discord" but I think it's a pretty poor choice of branding too.

    A communication app called Discord is pretty weird too.

    A stoat is a pretty cool animal.

    I think without prior knowledge of any voice chat Discord would probably rate worse in perception than Stoat.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    you mean unlike the tools discord has replaced, such as "mumble", "ventrilo", "roger wilco" and "trillian"?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (6 children)

    Mumble is a verb like chat but what the fuck has a stoat got anything to do chatting?

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    Do them yourself and you want to copy all those failed apps, lmao.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    Mumble is great and I still use it. None of those are failed apps.

    Not every app seeks to rake in teenagers' parents' money with shit like premium emojis.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    So, where are all the posts saying, 'self-hosted ventrilo?'

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    soundn like a problem with your friends then. who doesn't love a stoat?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I know, it's picky lol. I'm still considering it as the replacement for my discord groups (also checking out Element/Matrix). The average users aren't going to be up for swapping around a lot of platforms, so I am hoping to make one big push on the platform of choice. "Revolt" would have gotten less "wtf is that, how do you even spell it?" than "Stoat"

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    No clue! It was revolt before. I think they had trademark issues with that name. What's wrong with stoat?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    The name doesnt matter

    IRC is a stupid name too, unless you know what the letters stand for

    Msn messenger was stupid

    Icq was stupid

    Wtf even is “skype”?

    It just has to be unique

    And a Stout is kinda cute

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