Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoThe problem is that performant screenshare (to multiple users) more or less requires infrastructure. That requires money, and it’s impossible to compete on price with services that have the VC-enshitification model.
You can get around this in a few ways, but they’re all tradeoffs that are in some way or other worse than discord.
- P2P - sacrifice latency
- direct multi-stream - sacrifice PC performance and/or bitrate
- paid infrastructure - sacrifice cost
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think P2P is still the way to go. Sure it’s not perfect, but it’s simpler and by it’s very nature doesn’t require the infrastructure we know will be a problem.
Plus, don’t forget screen sharing in discord isn’t very good as is (720p30) if you’re not a paid user.