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Alternatives to Discord and Twitch

Given the recent controversies surrounding Discord and the fact that the end user is a product of Twitch, I wonder if there is any “bare bone” solution to stream my gaming session to a friend who’s on Windows. I’d rather that they didn’t have to do anything except clicking on a link or perhaps installing a piece of software but with no need to do any configuration. From their perspective, it should "just work. Should I set up a webserver into which I feed an OBIS stream? Or can perhaps ffmpeg work as a server on it’s own? I’m on Arch Linux, playing games on Steam, within dwm within X11.

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Discord alternatives are complicated, because Discord is conceptual bullshit. It started as voice communication, yet became popular for the text communication. So you won't find a good replacement (unless something new created in particular to mimic discord), because the things it now provides are better handled by seperate applications. PS: ~~OBS should already work on it's own, without a dedicated webserver on your side. Basically every media program (also browser) should be able to handle streams~~ OBS' WHIP (WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion) support should allow direct connection to web browsers. (I'll will take a look at it when I'm home)

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@emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 13d

Thanks! I just installed OBS - also trying out a few variants from the AUR - but it gave an error saying “couldn’t load frontend-tools plugin”, didn’t recognize/pick up the Steam and/or the game’s window, even though I tried the game in various screen modes, and WHIP wasn’t in the streaming servers/sources selection section. I did some limited troubleshooting, but gave up, because my friend says they have Steam too. We’ll try out Steam’s “native” broadcasting function later tonight and see if we’re satisfied with that + chat/voice chat through Signal. Thanks for your time and input! :)

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