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by C0mm0nS3ns3 886 days ago
Why only voice chat?
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No pics of a problematic nature, more anonymous (thus more approachable) I'd wager..?
Yes. Text to a random person, and, maybe ask for optional keywords to match on, for slightly less random.
I assume because video is hard and/or expensive
Shouldn’t be with WebRTC, right?

I haven’t used it a lot but the scalability issues I’ve heard of with are due to the fact that p2p _group_ video is an n^2 problem by its nature.

It is quite simple with p2p WebRTC, like Jitsi did that, and perhaps still do.
yeah, what about people who cannot talk?
Maybe an IRC channel would be good. Libera (nee freenode) would seem like a natural home.
What would you propose? Video? What about people who are invisible? Just because you haven't seen anyone as such doesn't mean they don't exist.
He probably meant text. Which is what I had in mind when I asked the question too. Text is way cheaper than audio and you can opt in audio after an text ice breaker.
Wow. Mute or deaf people are real, invisible people are not.