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Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Anybody here who have a good recommendation for something as simple as Discord with audio lobbies? I see all these recommendations for alternative platforms and software which mostly focus on the community/forum aspect of Discord, and not the things Discord was meant to be used for: talking with your buddies while gaming.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Teamspeak. It's old and it's still good. Uses no resources at all compared to Discord and there are thousands of free servers if you don't want to host one yourself.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

Yeah? I've heard about that since I was young, and it doesn't seem like it's going to enshittify for some reason. But I thought it was made by a company. Oh well, might give it a go. Thank you.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

I used Mumble before Discord was a thing, but the self-hosting a server thing got a bit old, and required me to keep my PC on at all times in case my buddies wanted to play games and chat when I wasn't available.

[–] Yttra@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Stoat has vc, but I haven't had the chance to try it with someone else yet.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Any reason why anything not self hosted won't be subject to enshittification down the line? 🥲

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Text has been a little sluggish with my tests. Might be due to influx of users, though.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

As long as the voice is solid, I'm good with that.