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Does anyone here use anything other than Discord for chatting? What exactly and how much?

"use" is the key word here, I'm interested in actual usage, not just the names of alternatives that I already know

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago
  1. zoom, voice and always video
  2. messenger, voice and 50-50 video, usually with Portal TV Unit (every day it still works is a blessing). Call hand-off between Portal , phone and desktop mid-call are really well-done, so my wife's mother can easily switch to her phone, take the call up the stairs to her office and show me the thing on the cam that is messing up (usually printer lights) and then take the call back down to the living room and portal.
  3. teams as ordered, voice, and video VERY rarely
  4. gChat briefly when it's important enough to suffer the UX and connection glitches, voice and accidental video
  5. zello if people have it and the situation is dynamic
  6. mumble if people can find it

No value in discord for me.

Skype was eventually quite usable, despite increasingly wrong-headed UI fuckery. It started and ran a call nicely, and supported cross-device chat really well. I miss it.

I'm still hoping we can re-flash the gorgeous PortalTV hardware into something more usable in today's versatile world or find something like it (easy setup, voice calling if LLM API for voice commands, rock-solid reliability, no fucking subscriptions).