People talk about Discord on here for chat rooms a lot. Is it open in some way that Slack is not? Looking at their website it seems like it's basically... just Slack.
I've been musing, this morning, about Twitter:Mastodon::Slack:???
@benhamill I don't know much about slack but Discord is free and low-maintenance to run a server (plus free voice chat, as @zigg said). And with my limited experience, I found it a bit easier to use than slack. A lot of people have written bots for this that and the other thing in Discord.
@zigg @HereticSoul I didn't see any mention of setting up a server or deploying software on their website when I poked around just a bit ago.
@benhamill @HereticSoul I was positive Slack voice was paid plans only.
Discord is entirely hosted, but they call their teams "servers".
@HereticSoul @zigg Free Slack plan has voice chat, too.
Do you actually deploy-and-host your own Discord server the way you would a Masto instance? I thought it was just a sign up and hosted by them?