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

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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      4 hours ago

      There is an alternative people have used before discord came, it is called teamspeak. Is still around as well, but works more like a federated system since everyone has to set up and host their own server for people to use.

      • dino@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        We would have to sit down and actually think what an opensource solution can achieve and how it gets traction. Also from the get go it should be clear that there will be no feature parity between it and discord. If it was me, I would cut out the whole chatroom functionality, leave private messaging in, use threaded conversations as a standard and but a decent videocall system on top. But this would be my version of it, other people have other needs.

        For the video call system you would not have to reinvent the wheel, use something existing like Jitsi (?) or alternatives. Then you would

        Maybe the best bet is to look at matrix and wrench out the chatroom focus and replace it with threads?

          • dino@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            60 minutes ago

            Not in my bubble, chats create insurmountable loads of noise. By focusing on threads you get the discussion much more focused and streamlined. Example: Most of my discords are ttrpg related, where with the usage of bots games are scheduled. Or where discussion are happening around certain ttrpg systems.

            I agree that a lot of discord servers focus on chat rooms. But you could retain that by simply having 1-2 chatrooms per server and structure/direct conversations to dedicated threads/voice chats instead.

            Again this is just MY view. I am totally aware that other people, use it differently.