How can this shit so popular?

The same way as every other company, advertising

It is a mystery. I use it for group chats because my normiefag friends insist on it, but I refuse to talk about anything really private using it.

Normies don't care about privacy.

>>60934296
/v/ and normie gaymers will usher in the botnet to end all botnets. The internet as you know it will be gone for good.

>>60934296
Make something better you talentless betafaggot

>>60934829
First we'd need a logo

>>60934296
Because normal people don't care about privacy and there aren't any libre alternatives of the same quality

>>60935291
I wish /g/ was talented enough to create a libre alternative

>>60934829
Already exists: matrix/riot

>>60935364
Isn't mumble a libre alternative?

>>60934296
Because most people aren't Richard Stallman.

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>>60935254
Got it! How's this?

>>60935373
Add all the bells and whistles to it for le epik maymays and it would be perfect

>>60935453
Discord is finished. How can they even compete?

>>60935556
We need jewish funds then we will destroy. We'll also butthurt /pol in the process

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>>60935453
I'm in

>>60934829
IRC already exists. The fact that it intimidates the majority of spewing Discord retards make it even better.

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>>60935595
We should culturally appropriate /pol/s memes so they get mad

here's an alternative logo guaranteed to generate /pol/ish asshurt

>>60935373
I don't think mumble has a concept of global accounts

Also, mumble's text chat is awful

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>>60934296
>>60934829
There already is something better. It's called Matrix, and it does everything Discord does plus encryption and federation.

https://matrix.org

>>60935371 already mentioned it but I figured it deserved an explanation.

Don't believe me? Check out one of Banter City's guest rooms through the Riot web client. Our general discussion is a good place to start.

https://riot.im/app/#/room/#general:banter.city

We're /g/ friendly, free speech oriented, and active daily, so you'll feel right at home. If you decide to register through Riot, be sure to tick "Custom Server" in the settings and use https://banter.city as your Home Server URL.

See you guys there.

>>60935752
Matrix has no group voice calls

>>60935762
They have VR video calls instead

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>>60934829

>>60935774
This is actually true.

https://matrix.org/blog/2017/04/04/opening-up-cyberspace-with-matrix-and-webvr/

https://matrix.org/vrdemo/#/room/#vrvc_thin-zebra:conf.matrix.org

>>60935635
???

>>60935635
>A FUCKING LEAF

>>60934296


>we may conduct research on our customer demographics, interests and behavior [...] This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and we may share this aggregate data with our affiliates, agents and business partners

Hasn't happened yet this is all just incase this ever happens.

>As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, bankruptcy, dissolution or similar event, your information may be part of the transferred assets.

Are you retarded? Literally every company does this once again just premtively doing this before they have to change it again when they might get bought out for whatever money.


>The Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates (the “Related Companies”) may also use your information collected through the Services to help us improve the content and functionality of the Services, to better understand our users and to improve the Services. The Company and its affiliates may use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about services we believe will be of interest to you.

Yeah all companies do this. Even 4chan.

>Developers using our SDK or API will have access to their end users’ information, including message content, message metadata, and voice metadata.

Only if they have your Token. This isn't a privacy concern unless you're retarded.

>We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice.

So does everyone.

>>60936015
>Hasn't happened yet
And how the flying fuck would you know this?
They have no obligation to tell anyone.

what kind of shit do you people discuss over VOIP that makes privacy such a concern?

the program's advertised to and intended for use by (underage) gamers, they don't expect you to use it for anything more than screaming retarded shit at your mates

Like look I can see why you don't want your OS keylogging your shit but come on now why is /this/ a problem

>>60936082
This needs to be in the sticky.

https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

Oh shit some chink advert company might find out xXSasuk3xX jerks off to gay porn and plays league with his friends!!!!!

Now his adblock will block those chink ads anyway!

>>60934296
fuck off teamspeak shill, your platform is dead, get over it

>>60934296
Because it's easy as fuck to use so even normies can fucking use it. It's like Skype but better by a fucking mile. Just take it faggot.

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>>60935453
Gotta be more simple

Voice
Over
Media

>>60934296
because it's free and as reliable as teamspeak

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>>60937445
I....
I like this.

Can we do this?
Kill TOX/Discord/Slack/Skype in one versatile, efficient, fast and open source piece of software.

>>60936082
I don't want to get fired or blackmailed for using politically incorrect profanity in game sessions years ago.

>>60934296
Fucking retarded normies enabled this kind of horseshit just because IRC was too hard.

It's free and easy to use.

So they make their money from both investors and selling user data. They parse everything you say into text, and sell it to advertisers.

>>60937689
IRC only allowed communities to create single channels. Discord has the notion of "servers" which is really just a group of channels. Also it has a web client which makes joining channels a lot easier. Everything else about it is pure shit though - logging is nonexistent and it's impossible to find old messages unless you screencapped it at the right moment.

Because yall would have rather memed on tox instead of getting behind it.

It's popular because it's simple to set up, free, intuitive, and fairly high quality. What do you think could possibly compete with that in a userbase that doesn't care about FOSS or privacy as long as the software works well?

Either pay for something directly or do it indirectly.

I like it because it solved the issue of mumble vs Skype vs TeamSpeak vs vent. It also reminds me of the IRC days in the late 90s-early 00s.

Thr funniest thing is that it's a direct clone of Slack. Kek.

>>60934296
the have a lot of dosh to pay twitch streamers and other cretins to shill their product

http://matrix.org/

Matrix is the FOSS solution, no point in creating more projects. I've started contributing myself, I highly encourage anyone who cares about free private communication to get involved. To compete with discord, it probably needs someone to tackle this issue in particular:
https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/3546

>>60938005
Also this one:
https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/2454

which addresses >>60937756

>>60938005
You can't compete with an already free service by providing a similar service without the privacy concerns. Americans still use antiquated SMS for no reason other than it's what they're used to. Even Applel children still rely on SMS despite a free, better alternative being installed by default on their toys.

>>60935774
but thats fucking useless when you're playing games, which is what 99% of people use discord for

>>60938084
iMessage is not SMS

It's free and just works

Works better than Skype

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>>60938215
Yes, I implied that in my post.

>>60935371
>>60935752
As good as this sounds, it's already the betamax to discord's vhs.

>>60938005
/g/ barely has any programmers and here you need some kind of networking expert because this isn't a feature missing from riot.im, it's a feature missing from protocol

Matrix team has been struggling with it for years already, so even they probably don't have a qualified person to do that