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Discord Alternatives, Ranked (taggart-tech.com)
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[–] 35 points 7 months ago (26 children)

What I really need is realtime multi-party voice chat

Do any of these support that?

I mostly use discord for light coordination and online voice chat during games or activities.

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (14 children)

    Teamspeak, ventrilo, mumble - but discord replaced them all with being easy to use.

    Sadly, there is no real alternative with all the discord features. I mean, you could create chats in Zoom and use their voice/video feature, but at least one person would need pro.

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Installing Zoom on your machine is a mistake. 

    Their install process is indistinguishable from malware abdv they have a history of shitting on security for all growth possible. 

    And sadly governments abd corporations rewarded them for it. 

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Their install process is indistinguishable from malware abdv they have a history of shitting on security for all growth possible.

    Source?

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

    I don’t need all the features, just two. 

    everything else about discord I hate. 

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

    In my world the biggest advantage of Discord is the Availability on consoles allowing voice chat for crossplay. For all I know none of the alternatives you mentioned is available for consoles. I know there are people connecting their PS/XBox audio output with a computer running TeamSpeak to receive VoiceChat and in Game Sound from the same system but this is not a usable solution for most people.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    And that took forever to release! For over half the time discord has been around they didn’t have console support

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Steam's built in voice chat replaced discord for my group of friends years ago. It was rough at first, but it has improved a lot and now we dont have issues anymore.

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

    Technically, Signal, Rocket Chat, and Matrix all have multi-party voice chat built in. You probably won't have a great time with it, and if you want video or screen sharing, you'll have an even worse time.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Just tested out element and had no problem with screen sharing + video in a voice call. Haven't tried out the mobile app for that (but I haven't done that for discord either and on desktop, discord just doesn't screenshare like half the time for me)

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I'm kind of shocked if you had a decent/superior time and Element vs Discord, especially if you're in Windows! This is a case where I hope I can be proven wrong.

    Discord facilitates large audio and video calls, but if Element can manage even a handful of people at once, I would be impressed. In my experience, it hasn't, but such things are kind of hard to test.

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

    Isn't that a multi-way call? Everything else is covered by forums (permanent) or IRC/Matrix/XMPP (quick)

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