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The only similar enough one that's also free is matrix. At least what I've found so far.
https://sharedown.kaffekod.nu/05c3716c-05fd-46f0-a90d-efdc6ee8c8a4 link will work for about a week.
I'm considering IRC and teamspeak3 instead
Edit: updated the link
Does Matrix do voice yet? If not, it's not a discord alternative - it's an IRC alternative
Yes, our team uses it as a Skype/teams replacement, we pay $20 per month for a server on etke.cc in Germany. Their implementation, however, doesn’t seem to do group videocalls with screensharing, just group voice.
We are not federated because it is just an internal service that we need.
As far as I understand it, they kind of do but you need to install a third party app and use it through the Element interface. But I don't know for sure.
I have updated the list: https://sharedown.kaffekod.nu/05c3716c-05fd-46f0-a90d-efdc6ee8c8a4
I'd recommend Matrix. It's not perfect, but I dislike the alternatives more. Btw if you decide to give it a try, don't use matrix.org, it's too large of an instance which makes it slow and kind of ruins the decentralization aspect of it. tchncs.de seems like a good choice. I'd also love to give anyone in need of a matrix server a registration token, though registrations are not open on gregtech.eu, so contact me for a key if you'd like.
Stoat would be nice except its still a silo, you can self host your own silo but it doesnt federate, cant even use their offical app with self hosted instances. Upryzing seems like it might be going in a good direction but too early to know for sure.
Xmpp or matrix are the only truely decentralized options and neither is up for doing all the tasks discord gets used for.
The problem is many folks dont grasp the concept of doing one thing well over doing lots of things just sort of okay.
My suggestion to friends is figure out what discord features you actually care about and find apps that do those things. Muble for audio, obs to screen share, xmpp or matrix to chat, etc.
My suggestion to friends is figure out what discord features you actually care about and find apps that do those things. Muble for audio, obs to screen share, xmpp or matrix to chat, etc.
Agree with the sentiment, but OBS to screen share? How does one do that?
OBS allows you to stream video (hence its ubiquitous use by streamers on sites like Twitch), so you could simply configure OBS to stream for a smaller audience (your friends) instead using whatever web hook or additional program needed.
Are you suggesting I should be setting up "private" streams via Twitch or YouTube when I want to do a pair programming session?
That's not a solution.
For a private screen you can use a web based solution like mirotalk or jitsi. Pretty much all web browsers support screenshare via an extension these days so its mostly just a matter of finding a server with low latency (or running your own)
I tend to stream directly to peertube so thats what i was thinking of for obs but its true that obs isnt ideal for smaller private sessions.
It was specifically the OBS aspect I couldn't get my head around.
What sort of things are people trying to screen share on discord? Are you watching a movie together, playing a game, or ???
Normally programming sessions with coworkers.
No, what I am saying because that functionality exists within OBS, it can be redirected/repurposed to directly stream the video through another application/protocol entirely (although if that's already release ready is up for debate).
The proof of capability is there from the pre-existing Youtube/Twitch use cases, but there's no reason that OBS couldn't work as well for something like Matrix (but the groundwork may not be ready yet).
discord screen shares are very low latency and well integrated.. is it possible to do something similar with obs? genuinely asking.
I would imagine the limiting factors would be bandwidth and compute - I imagine discord offloads some of the processing on their servers to make sharing such a smooth experience, while services like Twitch intentionally introduce delay to make stream sniping more difficult.
So for OBS, the most difficult part of having a low latency stream to another person is having a strong, speedy connection, and a beefy enough gpu/cpu to handle the encoding quality necessary.
have tried running am rtmp server, for some reason even on my local network and very low res/quality it was awfully slow sadly.. :/