I don't think there are many applications that I hate with more passion than discord and anybody who willingly chooses that garbage piece of software to further hide what used to be searchable forum content behind login walls and proprietary apis should be forced to search for a solution for a simple problem of their most beloved hobby all over hundreds of stupid discord channels for all eternity.
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2025
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There are tools like Answer Overflow that try to make information on discord more easily discoverable from web searches.
That may be true, but I use it exclusively to chat with friends and play games together like DnD. It's sad communities that exist much better over text are migrating to it.
Sure, your feelings make sense. But have you ever used MS Teams and MS SharePoint?
Stop seeing Discord as a forum, it is an IRC clone
He didn't say he sees it as a forum. He means what used to go on forums, and became information easily found via search engine, is now being put on Discord.
Never did. Doesn't change the fact that a lot of forums are now deserted and have a pinned post that points to a fucking discord.
It should be an IRC clone. Having the voice and screen sharing is also kinda nice.
Instead it's IRC + MSN messenger + Ventrilo + Skype + TeamViewer + MegaShare + Wiki + Game server hosting + Forum and probably a few more I'm forgetting, and adding more half-working bloat all the time.
Still very bad
This is in part because of electron.
Even Steam is a chromium app. 😥
Well, that's kinda always been the same for steam. It's always been the client and a wrapper for the website that's got the shop
@Fubarberry Man oh man do you fucking love to see #Linux finally getting official recognition from large companies. Thank the fuck outta you, #Valve and the #SteamDeck
not fubar, but where’s the discord repo?
Does screen-sharing with audio work yet?
It works and has worked for a while. Application specific sharing for audio is an oddity though, since it can't seem to isolate and you get all desktop audio excluding discord
Didn't work for me when I switched to linux some time ago. Vesktop works fine tho
I'm using Fedora 43 Plasma under Wayland, with the regular Discord flatpak. Vesktop works, but I recall some oddly hacky things I had to do to make it work
It has for some time now, but the quality is still hit or miss. Some days I get perfect streaming, other days its either a garbled mess or it can't capture at all.
Webcam has always worked but nobody I know uses that.
it only has been working recently for me as of 3 months max
Last month I started hosting a TeamSpeak 6 server, and it's been great.
Matrix has its prime time to shine. They could be rapidly adding parity and making it a great decentralized alternative.
It seems however they are busy not updating element x, breaking signing keys, splitting every existing service they have into 2, and not writing docs
He better if it went away.
- Resolved an issue that caused Linux clients to display two titlebars.
And we still fall into stupid issues like this thanks to GNOME bias towards CSDs
The only way for discord to improve on linux would be if they stopped releasing it entirely
No client would be much worse than a client lacking feature parity. There are alternative Discord clients like Vesktop if you don't like the official one.
Discord is surveillance capitalism trash that cant die of enshittification soon enough.
Matrix, xmpp, mumble, there are cointless alternatives for every use case that are better options.
You can 1:1 mirror discord guilds on matrix or rocket chat. Mumble has been doing voice chat since before discord ever existed. Obs and rustdesk can do screen sharing much better then discord.
But sure, continue to lick that corporate boot more and tell me about how nothing can come close to the goodness of discord and all the normies are too dumb to ever use anything else.
I'm not endorsing Discord. All I was saying is that it is better to have a Linux client available for those who want to use it than not. To encourage the widest switch to Linux, commonly used software must be available on the platform.
The entire internet would be a whole lot better if the kind of information and help people currently turn to discord for was still primarily done on public web forums like it was from practically the dawn of the internet up until discord and other corporate trash just all of a sudden be came "essential" for everyone. Discord is actively harming our ability to archive and share data and they are profiting massively from it, it is objectively bad for the internet and bad for open source.
I don't disagree. The way I use discord and they way it works best is for small communities, like my guild where we can use it as a cross-game communication.
It really does suck for things like reference information and asking questions. Not only because it isn't publicly available, but just because finding that information within the platform itself is difficult.
I find it very frustrating that Nobara Linux uses Discord for support. I'm sure I could have used an answer that someone else asked previously, that is really difficult to find.
Everybody here knows those platforms are better. The problem is most people do not know anyone that uses them. People outside of Lemmy do not care about any of this stuff. They won't switch.
Do you have any guides or resources to using OBS as a screen share tool? I tried in the past to use it as a platform agnostic solution, but ran into a lot of problems that would prevent my friends from using it. Virtual cam didn't provide audio, and using input mixing to combine mic + isolated application audio(already a multi step process in OBS per app) involves a lot of tech knowledge that is beyond what the end-user demographic of discord is willing to put up with. I also tried using vdo ninja as a P2P shareable link for video group conferences, but couldn't get the webRTC links to work with direct streams from OBS.
I despise Discord and have been having success with moving close friends to more private IM apps, but so far, nothing has come close to the effortless ease of discord group calls with screen sharing. Most competing social screen share apps don't even have audio support, and the ones that do either don't have audio isolation, or their implementation of it is broken.
Can you give me more details about what you're trying to screenshare, like games, videos, slidshows? I mainly use OBS to stream to peertube which can itself host a chat or be integrated with other chats, but if you are looking for something more like a group video call jistsi might be more in line with what you want.
Send me a DM with more info and ill try to figure out what options might work for ya. My contact info is also on my lemmy profile.
Its usually games, though its generally "whatever we are doing at the time" with trusted, long distance friends. Its not something I would want to share over publicly accessible URLs. And it almost always involve varied and fast moving visuals, so basic software encoding is not acceptable.
I have tried jitsi before. It does not use hardware accelerated codecs or provide audio isolation for applications. I can't imagine using its screen share for anything more demanding than a slide show presentation.
Currently best option might be vdo.ninja, or if you have multiple people wanting to game on the same shared screen sunshine/moonlight is specifically for gaming can handle shared sessions.
I do hope jitsi gets better encoding options in the future because its really the easiest to use
screen sharing still lags my games out, making it unusable