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I feel like it would be nice to have an always-on VO-IP conference channel of some sort where anyone who is actively on QOTO (and those who arent) can hang out in, to supplement the text medium.
That way when someone gets all pissy and mad at someone they can just pop on and handle itface to face, or atleast, voice-to-voice.. I feel like it might create an interesting and improved dynamic maybe.
@realcaseyrollins I havent decided on the specific technology to fullfill that, but mumble was suggested a few days ago.
@freemo It's nice and works fairly well.
You could install jitsi
@igel jitsi and mumble are the two most suggested ones so far.
Jitsi works in browsers and is easy to use. Mumble is for boomers
@igel I havent tried either. working in browsers sounds like a nice plus :)
I will probably try both and pick whichever offers the most features
Jitsi and mumble would both allow people to keep an anonymous identity. No one would be required to join either.
@arteteco enabled Talk on the Nextcloud server not long ago, and it works well for voice, video, and text chat. One could create a "general" conversation, add every user on the server, and start an ongoing call to which anyone could connect as they pleased.
I feel like this should be initiated by an admin - although I could in theory follow this recipe myself, I don't think many users would look favourably on a possibly high-noise chat to which some random account added them.
@khird Oh yes, we could use Talk too, I'm not too familiar with it so I haven't thought about it
@freemo To weight in on the whole mumble vs jitsi debate I think you describe two slightly different goals, one better realized with every of those pieces of software.
Mumble is better for permanently hanging out. You can sit there muted and just wait for someone to join. There is a non-intrusive chat which can even be bridged to matrix (although the existing bridges would require some work to provide a nice user experience :/). The sound quality is extremely nice, the desktop client is lightweight, and even when many people attempt to talk at once the quality remains reasonable.
For a quick talk to resolve a discussion face-to-face jitsi is better, because you can actually see the faces (quite important when you want to empathize better). You can also create private rooms very easily and there is good encryption, so anything you say remains private (as long as no other participant records of course). Mumble has private rooms, but they are not intuitive at all. However, sound and video sometimes get desynchronised and laggy, especially under firefox (it's optimized for chrome) or in longer conversations with many people.
@freemo I'm not sure this feature creep is beneficial to the network, I wouldn't want to overload us.
In case we want to proceed, Matrix is surely the protocol closest to the intentions and the spirit of the instance (federated, s2s, FOSS etc). It should support voice with jitsi. If we want to go the easy way sure, a discord server is just a 5 minutes work.
@freemo a mumble server maybe?
@jotbe maybe ill have to try that and jitsi
@freemo Like a #Mumble?