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What I really need is realtime multi-party voice chat

Do any of these support that?

I mostly use discord for light coordination and online voice chat during games or activities.

Teamspeak, ventrilo, mumble - but discord replaced them all with being easy to use.

Sadly, there is no real alternative with all the discord features. I mean, you could create chats in Zoom and use their voice/video feature, but at least one person would need pro.

Installing Zoom on your machine is a mistake. 

Their install process is indistinguishable from malware abdv they have a history of shitting on security for all growth possible. 

And sadly governments abd corporations rewarded them for it. 

Their install process is indistinguishable from malware abdv they have a history of shitting on security for all growth possible.

Source?

those were mostly issues from around Covid when they suddenly exploded and hard to start caring about security
I’m not a big fan of Zoom, but on Linux they have signed packages for most distros. Pretty standard install mechanism.

I don’t need all the features, just two. 

everything else about discord I hate. 

Check out teamspeak and mumble, maybe those fit
Teamspeak might be what I used 15 years ago
In my world the biggest advantage of Discord is the Availability on consoles allowing voice chat for crossplay. For all I know none of the alternatives you mentioned is available for consoles. I know there are people connecting their PS/XBox audio output with a computer running TeamSpeak to receive VoiceChat and in Game Sound from the same system but this is not a usable solution for most people.

100 % agree. Somehow Discord found its niche and no one else challenged it.

Edit: Xfire might have, but they died a long time ago

Xfire - Wikipedia

And that took forever to release! For over half the time discord has been around they didn’t have console support
possible, but still it’s a problem for me. Never liked Discord and was always happy with TS. But when I started playing with a friend using XBox I was forced to use it
Look at Teamspeak 6. You’re behind on the times