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Discord Alternatives? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi all, I'm looking for some Discord alternatives. All I really need is the ability to do voice calls and screen shares. It can be either via DM or channels, I only need to it be able to speak with a few friends that'd be open to moving over. I've tried Matrix/Element but there doesn't seem to be a screen share function. There's Teamspeak but I don't think that's FOSS nor does it support screen shares as well. Any other options? Basically just voice calls and screen shares is all I need, I couldn't care about channels or servers or whatever other functionalities Discord has put into their app. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would recommend using Matrix. But if you really want the "Discord experience" than I would suggest Revolt.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've never had revolt come close to working; it always felt really buggy. ~~It also seems abandoned looking at their GitHub, there's been no activity in over 7 months.~~

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where did you look at? The backend had a commit 2 days ago, the frontend rewrite 2 weeks ago. Looks active.

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

I was looking at https://github.com/revoltchat/revolt/commits/master though it's been pointed out to me that's an incomplete view.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well yeah, that's only a meta repository pointing to all the other repositories.

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

I don't really understand Revolt, most people don't want to self host an entire Discord (as in, a server full of servers), most people want to self host one server.