I use the screen sharing feature on discord to watch movies with my friends but I would prefer a FOSS alternative. I’ve tried Element/Matrix with the Jitsi add on but it seems like you can’t share the audio using that and the app can be a bit buggy in general. Does anyone have any other recommendations?
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As far as I know Matrix is the best FOSS alternative to Discord right now. Maybe try using the coturn addon for voice instead of Jitsi. I’ve been able to share audio snippets just fine this way.
I need to find a decent guide to Matrix, I was playing with it a couple of days ago and definitely found it confusing.
I checked it out but it seems like it doesn’t have a screen sharing option
You’re right, screen-sharing is not possible at the moment. But have a look at Revolt’s Roadmap, they will hopefully have this option in the future ;).
Revolt is trying to be Discord clone, you can check them out, not sure how well they match feature wise. Matrix is close to being full replacement, but they are not there yet.
Revolt seems to be the most similar but unfortunately it doesn’t have a screen sharing option
I think we also need a platform supports bots. Thats best feature of Discord.
You can share the audio by using VoiceMeeter or PulseMeeter.
I’ll try that out,thanks.
Matrix is the way, and will only get better in 2.0 and beyond.
I saw Revolt posted in HN recently as a discord alternative. Might be worth a look: https://revolt.chat/
Haven’t tried it myself so unsure about the feature set.
If you’re watching movies with friends and want a FOSS alternative, Jellyfin is the way to go. It’s basically a way to host a media streaming center that others can connect to. It might be a bit overkill depending on your needs, but it’s great for that exact purpose. It doesn’t have chat or anything, though, so you’ll want to keep something else around for that.
This sounds pretty good,I’ll check it out. Thanks
Saved to follow later - FOSS or FediDiscord (FeDiscord?) would be awesome
I think Element is the closest but it still lacks some features from Discord
Yeah I decided to set up a Matrix Synapse server, it seems close but not quite there yet. Maybe soon, then I can rid myself of Discord
Revolt might do what you need, but I haven’t used it enough to know for sure. https://github.com/revoltchat
Maybe you can combine https://syncplay.pl/ with Matrix chat room?
If you’re willing to try a different approach, Syncplay is pretty good. Rather than streaming a movie to your friends and hoping everyone has enough bandwidth to make it work, you arrange for everyone to have a copy of the movie, and then let Syncplay synchronize everyone’s playback.
