• jagermo@feddit.org
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    Teamspeak, ventrilo, mumble - but discord replaced them all with being easy to use.

    Sadly, there is no real alternative with all the discord features. I mean, you could create chats in Zoom and use their voice/video feature, but at least one person would need pro.

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      In my world the biggest advantage of Discord is the Availability on consoles allowing voice chat for crossplay. For all I know none of the alternatives you mentioned is available for consoles. I know there are people connecting their PS/XBox audio output with a computer running TeamSpeak to receive VoiceChat and in Game Sound from the same system but this is not a usable solution for most people.

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        100 % agree. Somehow Discord found its niche and no one else challenged it.

        Edit: Xfire might have, but they died a long time ago

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        And that took forever to release! For over half the time discord has been around they didn’t have console support

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          possible, but still it’s a problem for me. Never liked Discord and was always happy with TS. But when I started playing with a friend using XBox I was forced to use it

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      Installing Zoom on your machine is a mistake.

      Their install process is indistinguishable from malware abdv they have a history of shitting on security for all growth possible.

      And sadly governments abd corporations rewarded them for it.

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        Their install process is indistinguishable from malware abdv they have a history of shitting on security for all growth possible.

        Source?