Comment on Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
The only way for discord to improve on linux would be if they stopped releasing it entirely
Comment on Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
The only way for discord to improve on linux would be if they stopped releasing it entirely
voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
No client would be much worse than a client lacking feature parity. There are alternative Discord clients like Vesktop if you don’t like the official one.
gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Discord is surveillance capitalism trash that will die a slow prolonged enshittification death.
Discord is spyware
Matrix, xmpp, mumble, there are cointless alternatives for every use case that are better options.
You can 1:1 mirror discord guilds on matrix among other things btw. Mumble has been doing voice chat since before discord ever existed. Obs and rustdesk can do screen sharing much better then discord.
But sure, continue to lick that corporate boot more and tell me about how nothing can come close to the goodness of discord!
voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I’m not endorsing Discord. All I was saying is that it is better to have a Linux client available for those who want to use it than not. To encourage the widest switch to Linux, commonly used software must be available on the platform.
gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
The entire internet would be a whole lot better if the kind of information and help people currently turn to discord for was still primarily done on public web forums like it was from practically the dawn of the internet up until discord and other corporate trash just all of a sudden be came “essential” for everyone. Discord is actively harming our ability to archive and share data and they are profiting massively from it, it is objectively bad for the internet and bad for open source.
greencoil@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 days ago
Do you have any guides or resources to using OBS as a screen share tool? I tried in the past to use it as a platform agnostic solution, but ran into a lot of problems that would prevent my friends from using it. Virtual cam didn’t provide audio, and using input mixing to combine mic + isolated application audio(already a multi step process in OBS per app) involves a lot of tech knowledge that is beyond what the end-user demographic of discord is willing to put up with. I also tried using vdo ninja as a P2P shareable link for video group conferences, but couldn’t get the webRTC links to work with direct streams from OBS.
I despise Discord and have been having success with moving close friends to more private IM apps, but so far, nothing has come close to the effortless ease of discord group calls with screen sharing. Most competing social screen share apps don’t even have audio support, and the ones that do either don’t have audio isolation, or their implementation of it is broken.
gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Can you give me more details about what you’re trying to screenshare, like games, videos, slidshows? I mainly use OBS to stream to peertube which can itself host a chat or be integrated with other chats, but if you are looking for something more like a group video call jistsi might be more in line with what you want.
Send me a DM with more info and ill try to figure out what options might work for ya. My contact info is also on my lemmy profile.
superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Everybody here knows those platforms are better. The problem is most people do not know anyone that uses them. People outside of Lemmy do not care about any of this stuff. They won’t switch.