All this talk about Discord replacements plus my own experience attempting to host a Synapse has got me wondering why it seems so hard to implement voice chat.

Stupid idea: back in 2022 I got an Asterisk server working on a raspberry pi over AREDN without too much trouble. What’s stopping people from just using a PBX like that for voice chat?

  • matsdis@piefed.socialEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    As for “why is it hard to self-host”, it is only NAT traversal.

    TURN, STUN, ICE, etc. are not fun to debug. Not sure if anyone still bothers fiddling with TOS/DSCP on their router. You could build a server that just exposes a TCP port and call it a day, but this gets you latency. Corporate firewalls lovhttps://piefed.social/c/selfhosted/p/1772277/why-is-self-hosted-voice-chat-so-hard#e to randomly block some UDP port ranges but not others.