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All this talk about Discord replacements plus my own experience attempting to host a Synapse has got me wondering why it seems so hard to implement voice chat.

Stupid idea: back in 2022 I got an Asterisk server working on a raspberry pi over AREDN without too much trouble. What's stopping people from just using a PBX like that for voice chat?

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[–] ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Try mumble if you just need voice. Just fire up a docker container and open a tcp and a udp port. The settings are under-documented so things like auth are tough to set up.

[–] coaxil@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 days ago

I second mumble, it's a 5 min job to fire it up and default servers settings are enough to get going out of the box.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'll 3rd mumble. Been hosting for over a decade.

No tracking, no ads, no bloat... This does it's one thing and does it very well.

[–] Tiefkuehlkost@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago

Tried mumble, worked easy and well, but i realised im not able to do without persistent chat and screen share any more. Now trying to get Matrix to work.