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?

  • ki9@lemmy.gf4.pwEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    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.

    • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours 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.

    • coaxil@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      24 hours 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.