With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.

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[–] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like I’ve explored every alternative, and there’s one feature that’s missing from everything: audio with screen share. Not a single service lets me share my system audio with the people watching my screen

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Matrix, Element?

[–] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Nope, no audio with the screen share

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This is actually a feature missing from many browsers. Maybe Discord has a workaround, not sure.

Movim.eu recently added it, but it only works on Chromium based browsers.

[–] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 points 4 hours ago

Even using desktop apps it seems like these services just don’t even try to stream audio. If they just made a pipewire node I could connect it up easily but they don’t even try that.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Jitsi, Revolt? BigBlueButton? Spacebar? You could try Matrix with Jitsi. Or Matrix with the video call beta in element, as someone else said.

[–] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 3 points 9 hours ago

I haven’t tried BBB, also Revolt is now called Stoat