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How come nobody has forked Mumble to create a better Discord alternative? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/foss@beehaw.org
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Please understand that I'm not a programmer and so this is probably a really dumb question, but Mumble works so great for voice chat and it already has text chat capabilities. It could just do with a UI refresh and maybe some added functionality to really provide a much better alternative to Discord. Any thoughts?

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Someone is creating a discord alternative: https://revolt.chat/

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Still no voice activation after yearsssssss

    https://github.com/orgs/revoltchat/discussions/277

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    They don't really advertise the server software on their website. How come?

    They show off all servers, so surely it is self hostable. How come they don't show off the server software?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They definitely got the Discord aesthetic down. Unfortunately, it seems to be both self-hostable and unfederated, which means that the userbase is going to be split up between a bunch of small and quiet instances with no convenient way to interact with the larger ecosystem. Their FAQ suggests that while it's not in the roadmap currently, they're still open to the idea, so maybe we should let them know that this would be a desirable thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Yes, hopefully they can solve it where so many haven't. I've never met a federated messenger/protocol with reliable voice and video chat between servers as TURN is costly it seems and things like JAMI are ime unreliable, though that's more distributed than federated.

    I think that only centralised messengers are capable of providing such features reliably as I've yet to see any evidence to the contrary.

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