• Konlanx@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    What alternative would you suggest if I just want to talk to my mates while gaming? I gave up on setting up TeamSpeak after like an hour and many crashes and errors. I was a TeamSpeak fan for many years when using windows, but on Linux I highly dislike it.

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      1 year ago

      Element has been working for me and my friends. At the moment, it just embeds Jitsi within the client to do group calls (which works fine. Jisti isn’t bad by any means), but native group calls are being worked on and are currently in beta!

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        Calls should come any month now. element-x just works on voice messages. The app is already able to make calls, you may try it b starting a call here and opening the link with the app. Just the ui and the things surrounding it are missing.

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        1 year ago

        I wish they would work on proper voice channels like discord has. The whole ‘meeting room’ zoom call style thing is obnoxious to use, and the screen sharing has so much lag.

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          There are “Video Rooms”. They’re in beta too.
          Also, screen sharing is done via the same platform agnostic web APIs every other Electron-based app uses, though.
          I got rid of screen capture induced lag by switching to Wayland.

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            1 year ago

            The screen capture isn’t the issue, encoding the stream is where discord manages to do it with only a second or so of latency. Jitsi and similar seem to have much longer delays.

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          There is “broadcasting” in element/ schildichat. Is that the same?

          There’s no lag on my end, might be server/ connection dependent

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      1 year ago

      If you just want to talk, mumble would be a very lightweight alternative.

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      1 year ago

      Mumble (is comoletely free software and has a better quality even than teamspeak)

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        And requires setting up and managing a server, which costs time and money and requires a certain degree of expertise. Also it can’t really be used as a primary chat app, so you still have to use another app for that. It also doesn’t support features like livestreams so that’s another application you may need.

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      There is a pretty similar looking and function called Revolt that could be useful for getting people that are used to Discord to switch. I think they also have a long goal of being able to send and receive messages and calls with Discord. Obviously they don’t have that atm, but it is open-source and nice to at least know about in the event a quick exodus of Discord is needed.

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      Guilded is a much better alternative. Gives you all the Nitro stuff for free. But ultimately is a for-profit company owned by MS Roblox so it’s destined for the same shitty fate in the future. Their monetization model is more like Patreon where people pay to support their favorite communities.

      Matrix is another one but its incredibly slow and incredibly lacking in features and not nearly as private as it’s made out to be.

      Best case scenario you can self-host rocket.chat

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      1 year ago

      Did you try the TeamSpeak 5 beta client? It uses CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) I think so it should be pretty platform agnostic. You can join TS3 servers with it just fine :)