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discord betrayed you? lol, I wouldn’t know, I’ve been self-hosting an open source voip server for the past fifteen years. it’s super low-latency and has much better chat tools than whatever your precious “nitro subscription” gets you. and as soon as I make even one friend,

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Many years ago I used to host murmurd (mumble) for my friend group. We were a bunch of nerd in engineering school, and I had a Linux server (dedicated one made of old hardware you could get at one of these French hosting companies for peanuts) for other reasons. So it made perfect sense to do so!

my only real experience of it is from playing EVE Online over a decade ago and thousands of people being on one chat server calling each other the n-word

(slinks away to suture wounds, after find no reference to mythical open source voip server that's been maintainable for decades, then realizing the deep cut of dangerously sharp satire)