I mostly lurk here, and I know we’ve had this discussion come up a number of times since Discord’s age verification changes were announced, but I figured this video offers value for the walkthrough and comparative analysis. Like me, the video authors aren’t seasoned self-hosters, and I’ve still got a lot to learn. Stoat and Fluxer both look appealing to me for my needs, but Stoat seemingly needs self-hosted servers to route through their master server (unless I’m missing something stupid) and I replicated the 404 for Fluxer’s self-hosting documentation seen in the video, so it’s looking like I’m leaning toward a Matrix server of some kind. Hopefully everyone looking for the Discord exit ramp is closer to finding it after this video.

  • Svinhufvud@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11·
    4 hours ago

    I have tried XMPP, Matrix and now I’ve settled on Mumble.

    Me and my fellows mostly just need a voice room or a couple to sit in, and Mumble does that best out of these three, in my opinion.

    I recommend giving Mumble a try as it is super easy to set up and use. Users don’t need to even create accounts to join servers.

    • early_riser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      28 minutes ago

      I second this. My gaming group probably won’t leave discord for the foreseeable future but Mumble is probably where we’d go if we did. IMO all these Discord alternatives are trying to do everything Discord does, when even Discord can’t pull it off sustainably at their scale.

      I don’t want federation. I don’t want it to scale to infinite concurrent users. What I want is something simple I can plonk on a crusty old laptop running Proxmox or a Raspberry pi for a few friends.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      I’ve got a Mumble server running on a little Linux container in my home lab.

      Easy to set up and configure, very stable. Nothing special, it does what it is supposed to do, be a low latency, stable voip system, and it does great.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Mumble is nice, but it hasn’t changed much since the time people explicitly moved away from it to Discord, so why would they go back it it now?

      • Svinhufvud@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        27 minutes ago

        Probably nothing has really changed. And I am not claiming it to be a Discord killer, as it really only does the voice rooms well.

        But I am recommending it if you and your friends just need a voice room or two (as me and my friends do).