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[–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Does Matrix have screen sharing where multiple participants can screen share simultaneously yet? Because that’s the feature all of my friends use.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like Discord, but if no one brings up screen sharing when Matrix is mentioned as an alternative then it’ll never be implemented.

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  • This is the public test version of the new call system that you can try without an account https://call.element.io/

    Its pretty new and still evolving, but this is basically just embedded in Element if you start a call in the client. From my test just now it doesnt look like you can have two people screensharing at once :( The screensharing itself works fine tho, it looks like a new share by a different person will just overwrite the previously started one.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's a somewhat weird, to me, use case. Even in a business setting, we share our screens with colleagues via meet or slack only one or two at a time. How does this work on Discord and why would a party of people do it?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Friends and I will stream games in a channel, sometimes our perspective of the same game, sometimes different games we're playing on our own. Just four or five of us, not like fifty.

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  • Its a very common use case on discord. As an example, a group of friends playing Jackbox Games, or watching YouTube videos together.

    It is also common on art-focused servers for many people to be passively sharing what they are working on while they chat.

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