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Pretty much what it says on the tin, but for more context. My friends and I use Discord to play D&D and other TTRPGs. We also use it to send memes and just have conversations. We mostly do the chat, text, images, gifs, etc. But we also use the voice and video chat pretty regularly too. Screen share sometimes as well. So I'd like to try to find something that has all those features if possible.

The new ID or facial recognition requirement they are implementing is a deal breaker for a few of us, and so if I can set up some kind of alternative to make it a non-issue, I'd like to.

I'm running Ubunutu 22.04 LETS, AMD 3700X, 64GBRAM, 10x 6TB HDD, and and 2 4TB NVmE. Have a 2gb up/down internet connection. So I don't think we should have any issues making it work smoothly for 7 people.

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[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago
[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Any Matrix clients support screensharing?

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 4 points 7 months ago

I am not knowledgeable enough yet, but doesn't self-hosting Nextcloud have a voice feature? I'm looking into setting that all up myself

[–] digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

TeamSpeak 6 maybe. Don’t know where they’re up to on it at the moment kinda lost the thread a while ago.

Brief lookup seems things are still selfhosted: https://github.com/teamspeak/teamspeak6-server

I don't know how often its updated though all things considered. I've been out of the 'clans' games for sometime and just easing myself back into things from those rose tinted glory days of Blueyonder Gaming, Barrysworld and Gamespy shenanigans.

First ever live voice over IP I used was Roger Wilco where I met the misses and spent the current 30 years messing around. Roger Wilco(Bought out by Gamespy), Ventrillo, mumble, ICQ, TS, TS3, Discord seems like we're coming full circle again 🥲. Ah the nostalgia.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Would Matrix be a good option? I think they have voice chat. There's a bunch of clients that you can pick from (Element, FluffyChat, etc) that seem pretty good

[–] quantumcheap@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Self hosting a Matrix server was daunting when I first looked into it, so concerns over it being difficult to deploy are pretty founded. But that changed when I discovered this repo. This makes quick work of getting one spun up, but the true gem of this is their documentation. They've probably got the best documentation I've ever read that explains the "why's" and not just the "how's".

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

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