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Any alternative you would recommend? I'm mostly using it for video group call for dnd. Although convincing the group to change to yet another program would be the hardest part.
As far as self hosted I’ve heard a lot about matrix but haven’t tried it. Maybe I’ll give it a shot this weekend.
https://matrix.org/
There’s also telegram, slack, etc if you want something else commercial.
I've convinced few of my friends to use Matrix and it has been a really nice platform and now I prefer it to Discord not only because it respects user privacy but also because it doesn't have the nitro bs
Does Matrix have video calls by now?
They are just using an implementation of Jitsi for the time being. Long story short: Yes, but they are still working on it.
Only if you use Element. Seems like the new Element client is making it even better, but afaik no protocol level support: https://element.io/blog/element-x-now-with-embedded-voip/
That’s great to hear. Somehow everyone and everything is on discord now and I really am not a fan of it what with all the pop ups and flashing shiny things to buy lol.
I’ll try to get my smaller groups on matrix
you can run a bridge. I forget that friends are on discord sometimes bc it's so seamless, and they can't tell I'm not sending messages from discord either. I do have to use the discord app for voip tho
Yeah I still have a lot of friends that just refuse to get off Discord but at least I got a few people to move like I said
Someone replied to me that you can run a bridge and never even know. I’m definitely trying it out now. Sick of all the nitro ads.
~~Microsoft~~ Roblox ripped off Discord and branded it as Guilded GG. Features-wise for audio and game streaming, they offer higher quality than Discord for free.
Is there any chance you'll get your group of friends to move to ~~"MS Teams for gamers"?~~ anything other than Discord? No chance.
Edited: Correction that Guilded is owned by Roblox, not MS.
Guilded.gg is owned by Roblox, where does Microsoft come into play?
Just checked and you're right. Looks like it was always owned by Roblox.
I must be getting it mixed up with the Teams features they added to the Xbox game bar on windows.
The inertia of "what we have works fine" is why I'm still using a lot of things.
Matrix, I'd you want something truly open and respects user privacy.
Host a teamspeak server on a raspberry pi, the sound quality is superior and there's no stupid feature set you don't need
Matrix is to discord as lemmy is to reddit.
The fediverse is the future.
Not sure if matrix does video calls, so if you're looking for something additional for that functionality, jitsi may be worth looking into. If I recall correctly its open source
They do, group video calls are implementing Jitsi.
Thanks for reminding me of jitsi! I'll see if my group would bite for a matrix and jitsi combo lol
Someone else responded to me saying I wasn't sure if matrix supports video calls:
"They do, group video calls are implementing Jitsi."
Integration might make things even easier :)
Best of luck!
Jitsi