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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Discord’s call quality is 100x better than a phone call, btw.

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  • millie@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    More reliable too, honestly. Plus the video streaming is indispensable. Honestly, discord voice chat is a big part of the reason I haven’t made a serious attempt to use Matrix for much if anything. The lack of push to talk is a deal breaker. Also like, none of my friends are there.

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  • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe if you pay for Nitro. Without it, the standard call quality is only 96kbps. Meanwhile VoLTE/VoNR and HD Voice have made mobile phone calls typically equal or higher quality. If you only ever call corporate/business/government services, those are typically still narrowband though, so you’re not going to notice.

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    • millie@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It depends on whether the server you’re on is boosted, also. But even a standard voice server is better quality than a phone. Phones may technically be able to play audio with a higher bitrate, but that’s limited by both cell service and speaker quality.

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      • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But even a standard voice server is better quality than a phone.

        It really isn’t in my experiences, but maybe it’s different in Australia? As well, other services like Telegram or Signal have way better quality too. Discord just kinda sucks.

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I remember when standard mp3 quality – these are pre-Napster days – was 112kbps. Honestly, 96 is sufficient for a voice call, especially for those of us who remember landline quality.

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      • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I mean yea, absolutely, but HD Voice can do 128kbps and comparatively that’s better than Discord. The other person’s comment seemed a bit snarky so I wanted to refute their assertion.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I dont.
      I don’t care what calls can do. What they regularly do for me is sound like shit.

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      • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        skill issue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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• TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The last thing I want to do with complete strangers is give them my phone number lol. Aside from obvious privacy concerns and call quality concerns, Discord is internet-based, so I don’t need cell service or international calling to talk to people.

  Screen sharing during voice calls is super helpful as well. It’s a pretty major feature of Discord, Teams, and I believe Skype (RIP), but Teams is not really any better than Discord and a lot more bloated.

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    International calls are what Signal is for!

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• TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  or not enough of a gamer

  Yeah, Discord’s easy/free voice chat was the reason it got so popular. It was so much easier to use than any of the alternatives, and in-game VC was a mixture of piss-poor quality and full of toxic 14 year olds.

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