If you do not quite understand the title, I'll explain it to you. If I want to play Minecraft online with a friend, how do I do it that we can talk. I do not want to do it with the chat. It's just stupid… Do you think it's Skype or is there a better alternative?
Skype no longer uses anyone. Conceivable alternatives would be Teamspeak (you may like to use my server on realhunters.de) or Discord. For talking, I think Teamspeak more pleasant, probably to write Discord. Oh, everything is free
The best way to download Discord from the Internet. So you can create "server" or join a server. In a server, voice and text channels can then be created. If you go into a voice channel and your friend too, you can talk to each other.
I encourage you to watch short videos on introducing Discord on YouTube so you can understand it a bit better.
https://discordapp.com/ is still the website of Discord for download.
I really hope that I could help you!
Yes Skype was made for that, but Skype is dead thanks to Microsoft. I'd recommend you Discord, which combines the best of Skype and teamSpeak.
By Discord there's simply no reason to use TS or Skype.