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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I would recommend using Matrix. But if you really want the “Discord experience” than I would suggest Revolt.
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.
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.Where did you look at? The backend had a commit 2 days ago, the frontend rewrite 2 weeks ago. Looks active.
I was looking at https://github.com/revoltchat/revolt/commits/master though it’s been pointed out to me that’s an incomplete view.
The Matrix network is the closest you’re likely to get to Discord’s features.
Nheko is a Matrix client that I believe can do screen sharing.
Eventually, whatever Matrix clients support Element Call might be what you want, but it’s in beta for now.
Jitsi Meet might also be worth a look, although its (optional) end-to-end encryption was too demanding for some laptops last time I tried it.
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Jitsi now needs a MS or Goog account
Only for the main instance. Its selfhostable as well.
i can’t believe so many people didn’t get that part
Are there any limitations with the screen sharing for these alternatives? Audio support or resolution adjustment? I thought I’ve seen mentions of lack of something but I may be thinking of Discord on linux
discord doesn’t do audio on Linux
matrix clients that support pipewire should do fine
What? I haven’t had any audio issues with discord on Linux (browser or app).
screenshare audio, it just doesn’t on Linux. not the voice chat part
