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So, I've been having issues with voice chat on Discord and I'm looking for alternatives. In my search, I came across Mumble, here. Does anyone here have experience, or information regarding Mumble, or a better alternative to Discord with better latency? Is it relatively easy to set up? Is it safe? Any advice and help is greatly appreciated.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mumble is what most people used before Discord. Everyone moved to Discord because it was comparatively better than Mumble.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No, they moved to Discord because there was a for-profit corporation that was extremely motivated to move people to Discord. Mumble is better in every way that an anti-consumerist cares about.

[–] StripedMonkey@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is incredibly reductive and at best looking at mumble through Rose tinted glasses.

Mumble has had a rocky past as a useful piece of software and it's absolutely not been a discord competitor any more than TeamSpeak is a discord competitor.

Maybe it's changed recently, but mumble has not had the feature set that made discord useful in the first place.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Mumble never tried to get feature parity with discord. If all you're using discord for is voice mumble is a perfectly adequate replacement.

[–] StripedMonkey@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

That might be true, but claiming that people only moved because they were propagandized into doing so by a for-profit company is absurd.