Given the recent controversies surrounding Discord and the fact that the end user is a product of Twitch, I wonder if there is any “bare bone” solution to stream my gaming session to a friend who’s on Windows. I’d rather that they didn’t have to do anything except clicking on a link or perhaps installing a piece of software but with no need to do any configuration. From their perspective, it should "just work.

On my side
Should I set up a webserver into which I feed an OBS stream? Or can perhaps ffmpeg work as a server on it’s own? I’m on Arch Linux, playing games on Steam, within dwm within X11.

On my friend’s side
No idea how a windows user is supposed to receive such a video feed.

Edit: text and voice chat, we’re considering Signal for.

  • procapra@lemmy.ml
    1·
    9 days ago

    Whatever your preferred matrix client is. That’s the alternative. Element, Nheko, Fluffychat, all decent options.

    Is it perfect? Hardly. Is it the best you’re going to get short of some cheap discord knockoff? Yes.

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
      02·
      7 days ago

      Matrix is a beyond dog shit discord replacement.

      If you need something to replace teams sure it’s passable. By dear fuck is matrix garbage.

    • maso@lemmus.orgEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      I’m super excited about fluxer. An iOS app is all I need before recommending it to my buddies but I am very excited for the self-hosted version

  • Ooops@feddit.org
    1·
    9 days ago

    Discord alternatives are complicated, because Discord is conceptual bullshit. It started as voice communication, yet became popular for the text communication.

    So you won’t find a good replacement (unless something new created in particular to mimic discord), because the things it now provides are better handled by seperate applications.

    PS: OBS should already work on it’s own, without a dedicated webserver on your side. Basically every media program (also browser) should be able to handle streams

    OBS’ WHIP (WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion) support should allow direct connection to web browsers.

    (I’ll will take a look at it when I’m home)