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Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch for the moment, this isnt lazy either, they changed the whole screenshare flow to suit linux's permission prompts

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sadly there's no alternative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Zulip has been around for a loooong time. It integrates well with Jitsi, and is fully self-hostable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Revolt looks pretty good despite its lack of a large user base

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

No screen share and there seems to be a reluctance to add/address requests for it. They add that and I can get my whole community to switch. Until then it's not happening.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I so wish there was matrix protocol for voice rooms and a good reference implementation but sadly there are neither

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

You can do it for xmpp and Jitsi right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

How long has it been since you used element/matrix? Serious question because the new element call stack is now finally released in element stable, as of a few patches ago. (It still only shows up as the "video rooms" feature that u have to enable in the labs/beta settings)

Its much cleaner than before and properly supports screensharing, adjusting individual user volumes and more. The previous jitsi based voice rooms were somewhat lacking i admit but they have been functional for years.

That was the last thing that kind of kept me from fully endorsing matrix but now it does all that really important stuff. The new mobile ElementX client also supports the new call system but its overall lacking compared to the normal mobile client which does not support it.

But for desktop use i dont have any complains anymore about matrix really.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

not that I dig into it very far but I check maybe once a year to find out if any of the features I want made it into matrix protocol yet and they always seem stalled

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

no alternative that's as user-friendly and feature-complete

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t say discord is either of those things

They need to limit server sizes, get rid of community searching, and add #XXXX to the end of usernames before we can pretend that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wouldn't limiting server sizes and getting rid of community searching be removing features? Why would anyone want that?

And Discord used to have #XXXX at the end of usernames.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would anyone want that?

1 they aren’t pedos

2 they want an app to talk to their friends with

3 they don’t want to be victims of misinformation campaigns

And Discord used to have #XXXX at the end of usernames.

Yeah it was better, it meant if you were being stalked you could just have the numbers changed. Now you need a completely different alias with the only purpose to be discouraging victims from getting help

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

1- What does that have to do with anything?

2- Then make a private server for just your friends.

3- Then make a private server for just your friends.

And no, it wasn't better. Just... different.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
  1. The people that want the public servers/control of a bunch of kids are pedos

2/3 opposite of above: the people who would join public servers are too young to know not to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

It's rather odd you think discord is full of children... And that there aren't verification processes in place.

You're creating a problem with Discord that doesn't exist, or at least, not in any way that's unique to discord.