this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2024
3 points (56.5% liked)

Asklemmy

43792 readers
839 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

What if there were voice chat channels you could join in a thread to discuss posts? The idea would be to give people a richer way of communicating instead of just typing comments and replies.

Update: I just realized what I really wanted was to have a conversation, so I'm going to get off the internet and actually go talk to people in the real world.

top 8 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 months ago

Hard pass. I already skip almost every video posted here because most of them could be an article instead. No way I would participate in a voice chat with other people where I am sure at least one of them is going to be yelling for no reason.

[โ€“] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Isn't that essentially one of the features of Discord?

It's not for me. I prefer text so I can think out my words.

[โ€“] zelifcam@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Call of Duty lobby is why this is a bad idea.

[โ€“] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I definitely get that. Even so, sometimes I think it'd be nice to talk to people for more clarity. Maybe voice chats would require a moderator to start them and stay there to facilitate the conversation?

[โ€“] zelifcam@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

moderator

Who would willingly do that?

[โ€“] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

People who like talking and listening I suppose. Then just click the mute button on someone's name if they're being abusive.

[โ€“] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

First and foremost, I think this just fundamentally wouldn't work out because it requires enough people being on a given thread at the same time, which would be on the rare side for most threads, then on top of that they also need to be in a position to talk freely, ie - Not on the toilet, not in their open floorplan cube at work. The two place most commenting happens.

More subjectively, IMO, the times this would work out and be civil and a good conversation, would be far outweighed by the ones where it went south.

Sounds like a huge feature creep that would require many more developers, specifically those with experience in audio software development and low-latency content delivery. Plus, Matrix practically has this feature.