There’s a conversation happening right now across tech communities that feels both refreshing and frustrating in equal measure. People are genuinely fed up with Discord’s data hoarding practices and are actively looking for alternatives. The thing is, we’ve been here before, haven’t we?

Someone recently posted asking about open-source TeamSpeak alternatives for self-hosting, and the responses painted a picture that’s all too familiar. The nostalgia hit hard when someone mentioned paying three dollars a month for a Ventrilo server back in 2006. Remember those days? When we actually paid for services and in return, we got exactly what we signed up for – no data harvesting, no feature creep, no sudden policy changes that make you feel violated.