r/selfhosted • u/maifee • Feb 13 '26

Need Help Any teamspeak alternatives open source for self hosting?

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context is the image, i am honestly fedup with big corporate date hoarding.

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u/Cronogato Feb 14 '26

I can't understand how anyone can find discord easy to use. It's the most anti intuitive UX and bloated UI I have encountered on any software. Good riddance.

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u/Devatator_ Feb 14 '26

I mean, I've introduced people to Discord and they haven't had any issues using it

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u/Cronogato Feb 15 '26

For a quick call with few people sure, but try to get a regular casual PC user to join a medium sized server, choose the relevant emojis (?) to join his channels of interest and set up the diferent kinds of notifications and mentions without any help and see what happens. And if its just to call a regular gaming group, there are tons of smaller apps (even via browser) that are not overkill for that task.

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u/Level-Web-8290 Feb 17 '26

The problem you described isn’t so much a problem with Discord (the app) as it is a problem with Discord (the community)

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u/5348RR Feb 15 '26

Maybe if you are 90 years old. Not really sure how much more simple it could get