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[–] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Isn't that closed source tho?

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe, but let’s deal with one crisis at a time

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago*

    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. Then when a fully functional, self hosted, open source solution appears they can reasses.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Teamspeak sounds familiar, I think I had issues with them once before. Is it the one bundled with that OverWolf malware?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I personally treated Discord as a replacement for Skype, I used to chat with close friends on there for years before Microsoft purchased it.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    P2p streaming hasn't worked for me on the Linux client

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    I made a test with a friend who is on Nobara. He streamed and watched a stream: everything worked flawlessly.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    What client version and server version? I'm running the latest docker container and whatever is in the arch repos

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