Discussion
Just read https://wiki.alopex.li/DitchingDiscord and again author is actually pretty hopeful/positive about XMPP. Made me wonder if I should actually try XMPP out before sinking too deep into my own actually-easily-hosted-and-not-cla-laden-discord-clone project..
So... for the voicecom/screenshare usecase #xmpp is currently nogo. There is XEPs for 1-to-1 audio/video calls (called jingle) and mesh-varieties for jingle (so, p2p mesh where every participant connects to every other participant). This is absolutely not usable in any way, at least in the groups where I am. Even just pushing eight audio-streams to every participant, where participants are located evenly across whole Europe, UK and MENA... the bandwidth requirements alone are not reasonable and variable latency between every participant would make communicating impossible.
There is (or should be said, was?) https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0340.html for Zoom/Jitsi like conferences. That is apparently dead and no one uses it and wouldn't match the Discord like experience anyway with conference conductor.. thing.
Closest attempt for usable voice chat rooms seems to have been https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/av_conferences.html which on a surface level sounds like it matches Discordy-y lightweight voicecomms. Sadly Version: 0.0.1 (2024-07-29), so it has never been upgraded to proper XEP.
@orva Jitsi Meet is using XMPP and works perfectly fine for large groups. Jingle is not exclusively for 1-to-1 calls, you can use it to call into a mixer/SFU and then signal metadata via XEP-0298.
