Great. I’ve been using matrix just for myself, but our local dance group went to discord because FB was being such a pain to deal with
I have been preparing for it to get better.
If another service such as Matrix can built similar screen sharing into their applications then I’d be able to convince my friends to make the shift. As it stands there isn’t really a 1:1 equivalent.
Screen sharing in signal seems to work reasonably well.
it… works but it doesn’t work nearly as well as discord for gaming screen sharing, at least with the bit of testing i’ve done with mh wilds
I only used it for desktop applications. That’s good to know.
screen sharing in element is very good. just use element call under video call
I tested this today with a friend, and apparently it doesn’t need to be a video call, just a regular voice call is enough to do screen share.
I didn’t test with a group call though, so I can’t tell if it only works with two people.
in regular call the screen sharing has a horrible framerate, but in element call it’s smooth and high quality
I would like to contribute labor to developing a discord alternative.
I also don’t know shit about fuck. Is this not something that can be made open source?
You don’t have to reinvent the wheel, open standards with similar or better capabilities already exist. Don’t create another silo, contribute to making e.g. XMPP clients better.
Jitsi + mumble combo, perhaps?
I expect MatrixRTC will be capable of screen sharing if it isn’t already, so this is probably just a matter of time, so long as Matrix gets the sponsors they need to continue their work.
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Oh well.
Time to move on to Revolt and / or Matrix/Element…
Matrix has gone open core, XMPP is safer
The ads are so far sufficiently unobtrusive to still use the platform, and I’ve no need of Nitro, but should that change, I’ll flee elsewhere.
Discord just last week shut down a server that was my main local friend group, and we had to scramble to reconstitute it. At this point, we’re not even looking to advertise it. It’s a low-volume server with only six left-of-Overton from the core group, but it taught us that you always want more than one method of contact, as a a rugpull can happen at any time off any whim.
but it taught us that you always want more than one method of contact, as a a rugpull can happen at any time off any whim.
Being on the internet long enough taught me instead (by having seen countless providers rise and fall since the early 00’s) to self-host my comms and prefer open federated protocols. I switched to XMPP, I have no regret, everyone that matters made the move painlessly a decade ago or so.
Can someone give me a TLDR?
Developers want to cash out. Company going public. Will most likely have to do some things to keep investors happy, involving what is now known as enshittification.
Thank you! I wasnt sure if i understood it correctly
Lets just all go back to BitchX, ok?
Mannnn what a pain.
This isn’t surprising at all. Centralized services are expensive to run at a large scale.
