Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13.

The de facto chat client used by gamers, often at the expense of platform-provided solutions, so I hope mods let this fly. Screen sharing of a game window is something that Discord figured out before anyone else, and it still might be the only one in town that works well for that use case. I’m about to start doing more research to see if any other programs can be subbed in, because this sucks. Wario64 facetiously linked a story about Discord getting hacked and revealing government IDs right underneath this story on Bluesky.

  • missingno@fedia.io
    61·
    25 minutes ago

    Discord is the last mainstream social media platform I still use, and god do I hate it. I hate the impact it’s had on online communities, moving everything underground to a place that isn’t indexed by search engines.

    Unfortunately, I’m kind of stuck with it, I can’t disconnect from those communities that have chosen to tie themselves to this platform. If I did I really would be a hermit living in a cave.

      • missingno@fedia.io
        2·
        9 minutes ago

        Trying to convince people to come to Fedi is like trying to convince them to switch to Linux. They’re not gonna do it and they will get mad at me if I don’t shut the fuck up.

        • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          2 minutes ago

          Migrations like this happen when the other thing sucks. Linux usage even on Steam has tripled in the past four years, and these days if I’m not coming across a PewDiePie or Linus Tech Tips video about switching to Linux, I’m hearing my least tech savvy friends come to me to say I was right for the past 9 years and that their next PC is going to run Linux, if not a Steam Machine. People switch to Bluesky or Mastodon when Twitter becomes all bots due to incentives that Musk put in place, or when his company-sanctioned AI generates CSAM. People will switch off of Discord when enough is enough, and requiring ID uploads to a database that will certainly be hacked one day could be it.

  • gccalvin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 hour ago

    TeamSpeak has screen sharing, but it’s currently only p2p. Server-side screen sharing is still in development.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      How does it handle game windows? Presumably TeamSpeak cares more about such a use case, but I have to ask. How well does P2P screen sharing work for a group of about 10 people?

      • gccalvin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        45 minutes ago

        Because it’s client-side, it just depends. The specs of the computer sharing and available internet bandwidth will be a factor. In my experience it’s pretty reliable for non-video content, YT videos vary but are mostly fine. With games it depends on the video bit rate of the game. Minecraft would probably be fine, but Battlefield 6 may struggle. You only need the TeamSpeak 6 client to hop in a group call and try it out (an account is required as it’s in beta). If you do configure a TeamSpeak 6 server, you can screen share within the voice chat channel. Though I understand it probably isn’t easy to persuade your friends to try a new program. If you run into any issues, the support forum is very active.

        • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          39 minutes ago

          I can convince my friends to try lots of things if I take care of the hard parts. Discord’s changes are not going over well in our server, so we’re looking for the parachutes. I understand it depends, but would you say it works well enough? Or is there even some other hack we can run where I’ve got OBS open in another window sending a stream out to something that isn’t Twitch, like our own video clients? If that’s easy enough to do, I could even convince my friends to do that.