Tox VS Mumble

jami.net and tox.chat sort of being the way skype originally was.

Or you could try Tox . It's Tor based, but i don't know too much about it otherwise.

Or Briar, Session, Tox, Element/Matrix, Jami...

Tox Chat is a free, encrypted, open-source, decentralized P2P conferencing platform. Its video and voice calling capabilities include many enterprise-grade features like screen sharing, 1:1 chat channels, group chat, and file sharing. Tox supports desktop platforms including macOS, Windows, and Linux and offers iOS (Antidote) and Android (Antox) connections.

Nuh, I prefer using p2p chat app https://tox.chat/

I will go more with solutions using the Matrix (chat network protocol) or Tox (p2p chat, nice for 1 to 1).

Not entirely true, apps like Signal, Element, Tox, and some other messaging apps are free and private. Linux distributions (and BSD) such as TAILS OS, Solus and a few hundred others are also free and private. You can also choose to make basic changes like going through your accounts changing all the passwords, setting up 2FA, and locking down the settings every once in a while to increase privacy and security, all for free. Not having a smartphone or phone at all is also really private and can even save you money.

According to Github releases page and the downloads page, the latest mumble-server release is 1.4.27 at the time of typing. Ubuntu Packages and the Mumble PPA only have version 1.3.4.

tbh, as a user, if the priority speaker state stays over user reconnects I would also expect it to stay over server restarts. Feel free to check for or open a ticket for that.

For the other layers one can front-end IRC with TheLounge [1][2] or Convos [3][4]. TheLounge only persists history in private mode meaning that users are created in that front-end and chat messages are in Redis. For small networks or groups of friends this is probably fine.

Notably missing is voice chat. I use the Mumble client [5] with the Murmur or uMurmur [6] server which is light-weight enough to run on ones home router. I use it on Alpine Linux, works great. It's not a shiny and attention grabbing as Discord but probably fine for everyone else. For people to create their own voice channels would require the full-blown Murmur server.

[1] - https://github.com/thelounge

[2] - https://thelounge.chat/

[3] - https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/

[4] - https://convos.chat/

[5] - https://www.mumble.info/

[6] - https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur/wiki/Configuration

In an upstream discussion it was agreed that the use of "mumble-server" as the name should be suggested to package maintainers. See: https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/issues/4046

There's a pending PR for mumble as a reference implementation (C++).

Depends on how you're using Discord, but there's Mumble, Mattermost, and Element/Matrix

https://www.mumble.info/ is open source and self-hostable and pretty easy to use.

Maybe look at something like this https://www.mumble.info/

There's also Mumble which is an open source alternative. I've not used it much, but their thing is low latency and high quality.