two strangers. one call. no names

whatis1215

most "talk to strangers" apps collect your gender, avatar, age. they want a profile. this one refuses. no name, no handle, nothing. you're just a voice. built on pure webrtc — the server brokers the connection then gets out of the way. audio is peer-to-peer. nothing logged, nothing stored, nothing happened. it's one php file.

Neobecomer

Interesting concept tried waiting but no voice came up, but this could be great if distribution makes it.

kannanvijayan

Super neat concept, sort of like a stripped down chatroulette. However, in today's age I have to say that these sorts of little fun social experiment projects are just a lot harder to engage with without the back of your head going: "I wonder if this has some data collection, or voiceprint collection mechanism behind it". I'm not saying it does. In fact my natural assumption would be that it doesn't. But I can't be sure until I check, and look into the developer and ensure for myself that it is in fact a hobby project by someone legitimately just fooling around. The prevalence of data harvesting on the internet has basically poisoned the well with regards to these little fun experiments.

vlaaad

LMAO I'm not using it. No, I don't allow microphone access.

NikolaNovak

I think in late nineties we did this with IPhone. It was a windows app before Apple took the trademark, ran it on Cyrix 586 and 56.6k modem. I think my friends and I were about 17-18? We'd connect with random strangers around the world, then realized We had absolutely nothing to talk about. I imagine it might go better now that I'm not a horribly awkward teenager and have learned some small talk and open ended questions :) Edit : probably this thing: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=1111&utm_... Officially "internet phone" but I'm fairly certain app / people called it IPhone (first two letters capital).

thedoll

I just spoke with someone. Pleasant conversation. I stupidly pressed refresh which cut the call! My bad