To make it clear to those who are misunderstanding: that’s a list of companies that host matrix for you. They do it at a good price.
If you and your friends chip, it’ll be a few bucks a pop per month to have your own private server with voice chat rooms and video chat rooms.
It’s all opensource and contributes to the ecosystem. Best of all, no age verification because the data is yours.
I disagree, it’s more like we want a burger, but the only options that are out there are a meat patty here, a bun over there, and one project somewhere claims to have invented cheese and ketchup but can’t get them together unless the burger is made of tofu and you have to add them yourself using chopsticks.
Discord already serves burgers, they are technically poisoned, but they are whole burgers with cheese and ketchup.
I agree to disagree, a burger is a functional food (product) and a lot of the options provided deliver a functional product for what it is designed to do.
Mumble is great for voice chat, XMPP is great for plain text, etc.
Discord is a set of products wrapped in a platform. You have chats, voice, video, screensharing, filesharing, threads, bots, etc.
But since you want the whole buffet you’ll need to wait while Stoat and Spacebar finish cooking all the food, they don’t have a team of chefs backed by VC money.
If you don’t care for all that just keep using Discord or move to a proprietary buffet like Root until it enshittifies like Discord.