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Selfhosted alternatives to Discord with screensharing? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 23 hours ago by sCrUM_MASTER@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Been trying to figure out a user friendly alternative that I can get my less technical friends to transition to. We all use Signal already for messaging but it just doesn't fulfill our screenshare needs.

Most important feature it needs is the ability to screenshare with system audio, such as for streaming games or watching videos.

I'd ideally also like it to be E2EE just for the sake of privacy and security.

From what I've read and looked into it seems the closest thing that meets my needs would be Teamspeak 6 as you can host it yourself, and with the new update it now allows screenshare with audio (either as P2P or via server).

As far as I can tell chat messages don't persist by default but it can be enabled (and this would be a feature my friends would really want too).

I currently have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ but I'm aware it's a bit old and is ARM so I'm thinking of buying a Pi 5.

Do you think I'm on the right track here or are there any other options this community would recommend?

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[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

@communism @Natanox I'd argue the client itself has a fair bit of jank, though. Like, the background bubble color around text is too dark, it makes it look really ugly and dated. Pinned messages in a channel, when displayed at the top, literally overwrite each other. You'll just have garbled/overlapping text.

Neochat looks much better out of the box (but neochat is also buggy w/ e2ee, dropping encryption keys randomly).

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 47 minutes ago

Yeah that's fair. nheko is themable with qt themes though; I have it set to use my system qt theme. But I agree the UI gets a bit clunky. I think I just picked nheko cause it seemed the most feature complete when I looked, but I've just been using it since then so maybe the meta has changed.