Stoat.chat and XMPP

also Teamspeak, Ventrilo and Mumble are still around, they just feel incredibly dated and old by comparison to modern apps

Matrix and Teamspeak are the big ones, ive seen people talking about XMPP and other self-hosted solutions. The real issue people are waking up to is that if you dont host your communication tools, you dont own them.

The self-hosting community is buzzing with people spooling up their own services and getting ready to abandon discord. If you or people in your circles need help setting stuff up, just ask. Plenty of helpful nerds and guides are around.

Check out the Teamspeak 6 beta. I've checked out probably all the most popular discord alternatives at this point (as I refuse to use it and am always looking for something to convince others to get off of it) and the TS6 beta is almost right there as far as core features and experience goes.

Teamspeak

Why would I go from one closed source corporate to another closed source corporate that's got less features?

Still no backtracking has happened. Must that's happened it's a "clarification", which is basically "we're still doing it, you're getting such a silly baka for thinking we will make the same mistake as to leak again though 😁"

Text chat for day to day, voice for gaming, screen share for support or whatever, never use video.

3 times a week, for 2-3 hours at a time, almost every week, for the last 3 years I've used the Voice Chat.

I used to use the Video Calls for my weekly piano lessons but the quality was so inconsistent that we switched to WhatsApp for that.

Screensharing, maybe about 1-3 times a week, there's a server I'm in that do streaming of whole movies via the screensharing, with the text chat used for live reactions. Also one of the players in my TTRPG session has perennial problems where the Virtual Tabletop refuses to load for her and she "remote controls" her character by saying to the GM "can you move her to this space please?"

Erry day.