Doesn't enen mention XMPP or Mumble, thus probably badly researched.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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Yeah they don't seem to care about calling at all, with giving discourse such a high score.
Which is what made Discord so popular, over TeamSpeak. It made proper voice calling dead simple.
The article is entirely pointless, there’s plenty of forum and chat software, what set discord apart was voice. And anyone ranking Matrix that high has no clue what they’re talking about.
In particular, resource friendly video sharing. It's crazy how much worse the alternatives are in terms of resolution, frame rate, and RAM usage.
Just looked at XMPP, looks like a protocol, not a client. Is there a specific implementation you reccomend?
You can learn more about it on https://joinjabber.org/ (Jabber being the name of the open federation, similar to ActivityPub and the Fediverse).
Nice. Doesn't cover video chat/screen share options, but this is a good rundown.
If you don't care about privacy or security AT ALL, there are some additional options like Guilded.
TeamSpeak6 is also out, and is great for voice/video, but is missing the forum-like chat experience.
Unfortunately, there are no drop-in replacements. All of them involve sacrificing functionality in some sense.
Maybe the recent controversies will drive additional development.
Is Teamspeak6 out? Or is it in open beta for another year? Do they have mobile or browser versions to 6 yet? Last I checked no.
I mean if someone doesn't care about privacy or security at all, will they even leave discord?
Haven't used it much, but for the irc-part Stoat (Revolt) seems to cover Discord pretty much 1:1.
yeah but I also need voice / video for our dnd group, not sure if Stoat offers that.
It will - at some point - I hope. There are efforts being made currently to make the Livekit-based video chat available for the self-hostable container.
Last I read is that it is implemented, just not enabled. Also that you should be able to enable it when you self host. According to this comment.
Yeah things started moving visibly (across GitHub issues and PRs) recently. There was some weird silence for a couple weeks which made me worry. I hope they pull through.
Alright XMPP chads let's see how we ranked on this one!
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throws controller
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