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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?
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. Then when a fully functional, self hosted, open source solution appears they can reasses.
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.
I mean, mumble has gotten super good at audio, but I don't know about other features
Should still be a massive upgrade to discord in terms of how much you're getting shafted
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.
That’s great to hear and pretty cool that it can be done as P2P. I’ll definitely give it a go now!
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.
What client version and server version? I'm running the latest docker container and whatever is in the arch repos
Client : 6.0.0-beta3.4 Server : 6.0.0-beta8
On Nobara, my friend used the flatpak version.
Hm those versions seem to match what I have going, is there special configuration for a TURN server or anything that you had to do?