Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mostly gaming. I self-host three different game servers (Palworld, Minecraft and Terraria on occasion) and will be adding a TeamSpeak server soon to replace discord. Is it the best? Prolly not, but audio chat is all we really use Discord for anyway so we don’t need the full feature stack.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’ve been trying to get the boys off discord for years, and am finally getting some traction with the whole age verification thing. Sticking point is they want screen sharing, any ideas?
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Teamspeak 6 is in beta right now, but does have screen sharing. I don’t know how stable everything is atm, but might be worth looking into and keeping an eye on.
If the pricing model remains the same, we can expect TS6 to have a free self-hostable server for up to 32 users (which is the beta licensing right now).
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Yeah, in the asking around/trying stuff out phase now. movim.eu is the frontrunner, TS6 and a bunch of Element Call improvements for Matrix are apparently just around the corner. Matrix is my best guess for where things are headed and the smart move would be waiting for it to mature juuust a little, but I want to act while I’ve got their attention and that means having something up and running by the time Discord asks them for an id