I don't want to speculate why this is the case, but tech enthusiasts rarely have the social capital that it takes to move friend groups or local forums over to specific platforms.

The sad reality is that we can either accept the monopolizing forces like everyone else, or make ourselves apart from important social contexts.

I like to use Mumble https://www.mumble.info/ for voice chat while gaming. It's really effective at voice chat and runs on a toaster. The server was really easy to set up on my raspberry pi. Is there another software that might be helpful that you can think of? Free software would be preferable

> This is a community of Tech enthusiasts

Eh no, I’d say it’s precisely the subset of tech enthusiasts who aspire to work for a profitable company like discord, or even build one. There are a few of us here who reject corporate tech, but i don’t think it’s the majority.