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Switching to a self-hosted good old Teamspeak 6. Their screen sharing is very good, and audio quality is far above Discord. Overall it’s still need some polish but is okay.
Isn't that closed source tho?
I mean, mumble has gotten super good at audio, but I don't know about other features
Maybe, but let’s deal with one crisis at a time
But isn't that the wrong approach?
If you want to choose something better, shouldn't be 'enshittificationability' be the main point you want to address? That is the reason discord is doing most of the bad stuff. Proprietary software is about enshittification.
No.
The main point that needs to be addressed is the requirement to upload your face or government ID. This exodus has nothing to do with Discord not being Open Source.
If you’d rather stay on Discord and give them your face while you await the “perfect” solution to materialize you are free to do so. But I think everyone else just needs something purpose ready that doesn’t ask for their face.
I mean the issue at hand is discord enshittifying, TeamSpeak has been around for a lot longer and didn't do that (even when they were in discords position market wise) which also mlght be because their funding model is actually sustainable.
Sure they might enshittify later down the line anway but it's an alternative that's here now and solves the ossue at hand
True. At least it’s self-hosted. I just hope some real alternative to Discord comes soon.
Should still be a massive upgrade to discord in terms of how much you're getting shafted
Teamspeak sounds familiar, I think I had issues with them once before. Is it the one bundled with that OverWolf malware?
TeamSpeak is basically what Discord replaced in many gaming communities/servers/groups. Before discord, most gaming groups would have a TeamSpeak, Ventrillo or Mumble server. These were self hosted (or hosted in a VPS) and generally worked better than Skype. TeamSpeak was the most polished, Ventrillo was kinda dated looking but worked well and Mumble was the free software that was getting started and is now pretty good
I personally treated Discord as a replacement for Skype, I used to chat with close friends on there for years before Microsoft purchased it.
Yeah back in the day my friend group was on Skype as well as jumping onto whatever vc server was setup for whatever Minecraft server we were on. Skype was too bloated and bogged the system down especially if trying to do a voice call while playing a game on my old single core Pentium circa 2010ish
I think TS3 is bundled with Overwolf, but not TS6. I can be wrong.
Is screen sharing available for self hosting? Last I checked (6 months ago) the TS server version wasn’t publicly available yet.
If it is I’ll give it another go!
The interface indicates that sharing can be done via P2P or server. Since I cannot select the server option, and both my friends and I have stable internet connections, I left it on P2P. I successfully tested streaming in 1440p/60fps on Warframe and Nioh 3, and the stream was remarkably smooth, even during scenes with heavy visual effects.
P2p streaming hasn't worked for me on the Linux client
I made a test with a friend who is on Nobara. He streamed and watched a stream: everything worked flawlessly.
That’s great to hear and pretty cool that it can be done as P2P. I’ll definitely give it a go now!