Microsoft ripped off Discord and branded it as Guilded GG. Features-wise for audio and game streaming, they offer higher quality than Discord for free.
Is there any chance you’ll get your group of friends to move to “MS Teams for gamers”? No chance.
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RandomStickman@kbin.social 8 months ago
Any alternative you would recommend? I'm mostly using it for video group call for dnd. Although convincing the group to change to yet another program would be the hardest part.
CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
fjordbasa@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Guilds is owned by Roblox, where does Microsoft come into play?
CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Just checked and you’re right. Looks like it was always owned by Roblox.
I must be getting it mixed up with the Teams features they added to the Xbox game bar on windows.
rafadavidc@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
The inertia of “what we have works fine” is why I’m still using a lot of things.
soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Host a teamspeak server on a raspberry pi, the sound quality is superior and there’s no stupid feature set you don’t need
krash@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Matrix, I’d you want something truly open and respects user privacy.
chitak166@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Matrix is to discord as lemmy is to reddit.
The fediverse is the future.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not sure if matrix does video calls, so if you’re looking for something additional for that functionality, jitsi may be worth looking into. If I recall correctly its open source
Urist@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
They do, group video calls are implementing Jitsi.
RandomStickman@kbin.social 8 months ago
Thanks for reminding me of jitsi! I'll see if my group would bite for a matrix and jitsi combo lol
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 8 months ago
From someone else responding to me saying I wasn’t sure if matrix supports video calls: “They do, group video calls are implementing Jitsi.”
Might make things even easier :)
Best of luck!
crispy_kilt@feddit.de 8 months ago
Jitsi
m_randall@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
As far as self hosted I’ve heard a lot about matrix but haven’t tried it. Maybe I’ll give it a shot this weekend.
matrix.org
There’s also telegram, slack, etc if you want something else commercial.
Ebsku@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I’ve convinced few of my friends to use Matrix and it has been a really nice platform and now I prefer it to Discord not only because it respects user privacy but also because it doesn’t have the nitro bs
AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 8 months ago
Does Matrix have video calls by now?
Urist@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
They are just using an implementation of Jitsi for the time being. Long story short: Yes, but they are still working on it.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Only if you use Element. Seems like the new Element client is making it even better, but afaik no protocol level support: element.io/…/element-x-now-with-embedded-voip/
m_randall@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
That’s great to hear. Somehow everyone and everything is on discord now and I really am not a fan of it what with all the pop ups and flashing shiny things to buy lol.
I’ll try to get my smaller groups on matrix
brian@programming.dev 8 months ago
you can run a bridge. I forget that friends are on discord sometimes bc it’s so seamless, and they can’t tell I’m not sending messages from discord either. I do have to use the discord app for voip tho
Ebsku@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Yeah I still have a lot of friends that just refuse to get off Discord but at least I got a few people to move like I said