How is Matrix's screen-sharing quality? (programming.dev)

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A frequent activity that my closest friend group likes to do is spectate on single-player games played by one person via screen-sharing (and we're mostly introverted so no Twitch for us lol; plus, that's Amazon's playground anyway). This is where Discord unfortunately reigns supreme: its screen-sharing is somehow absolutely fantastic and near-flawless.

I recently learned that Matrix has screen-sharing through this Discord age-verification article, which may be enough to finally make the push for my friends to consider Matrix; how is it in comparison? Does anyone here very frequently use it?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I tried it and it's awesome! But there are two features that Discord has over Element when it comes to these voice calls; in Discord, you can choose to not watch the stream (which can help save data for those with limited data at the time); Matrix, or at least Element(? Help me out here) forces all voice call participants to stream the screen-share.

Additionally, Discord outlines avatars in green when they're saying something, which is a handy mic test feature, whereas Element(/Matrix?) gives no visual feedback.

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