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Discord alternatives? (lemy.lol)
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Discord is banned in Turkiye. The reason is some data theft, blackmail, AI montage photos, etc. As usual, our government made the easiest and most illogical move :)

I am looking for an alternative platform to talk and chat with my friends. Which platforms do you recommend?

The ones I tried:

  • Revolt: Voice chat is not stable. They do not accept new registrations.
  • Matrix: Unstable overall.
  • TeamSpeak: ancient interface. We can still try it.
  • XMPP: It has an old interface like TS. Not sure if it has voice channels.
  • Your recommendations?
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[–] crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 7 points 5 days ago

IRC: it’s open source, it’s free, its retro

[–] twoface@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Teamspeak 3 is ancient, but works.

However there is a new version of Teamspeak (TS5) which is much closer to Discord and looks much nicer. You could give that a try

[–] Lennny@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

There was a TS4?

There's guilded, have an old guild leader in tech that always tries to get us to be guinea pigs for different voips, and that one isn't terrible if discord isn't available.

Ventrilo, is that even around anymore?
Mumble wasn't too bad,

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Alternatively mumble and murmur, but the setup is more elaborate.

[–] everypizza@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

matrix: unstable overall

"Unstable" is an understatement, and this comes from a girl who uses it all day every day.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Isn't it generally better if you use a smaller instance/host your own? Most of the complaints I've heard have been on the busier instances.

That said, I only use it occasionally to catch up on dev updates.

[–] everypizza@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

My current instance has ~160 users, and it's okay. I once used a friend's instance, where I was the 2nd user. It was very bad. That might in part be the fact that it was running Conduwuit though.

[–] femtech@midwest.social 16 points 6 days ago (18 children)

You could self host revolt.

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

KiwiIRC is a web based IRC client. Does not have voice chat afaik, but since it's IRC it's very lightweight and had a low entry barrier.

[–] amnesiac@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

How about Guilded?

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