spacebarchat VS discord-screenaudio

If you're looking for an open-source, self-hostable, end-to-end encrypted Discord alternative, check out Spacebar.

Still in development, though is promising.

https://github.com/spacebarchat/spacebarchat

Discord isn't decentralized, it's not private, but it's popular and has free API access! Now, an alternative is a reverse engineered Discord backend (originally Fosscord) called Spacebar. It's not complete, but it's designed to be Discord compatible (talk to Discord peeps), decentralized, and E2E encrypted. They have their own client and early server.

Revolt, Guilded, Element (Matrix Client), Matrix, Cinny (Matrix Client), Spacebar, Rocket Chat, Mikoto, Mattermost, Teamspeak and Nertivia

spacebarchat is basically an alternative client. They're trying to write a server, but as it stands it still just talks to Discord. (Which I think is against TOS and can get your account banned?) Their own project team chat is still on Discord. Also their website is offline for "rebranding" and has been for about a year it looks like.

There is a free open source self-hostable reimplementation of Discord, called Spacebar: https://spacebar.chat

oh cool, I never heard to spacebar.chat before, seems like it's in alpha at the moment. And yeah, I tried revolt just out of curiosity, and it's definitely not a long term solution for anyone seeking greater control of their private communications.

They are now called spacebar. spacebar.chat

yes, https://github.com/spacebarchat/spacebarchat does seem to plan to be a discord alternative. i did not know about that Project.

Streaming with audio is possible with discord-screenaudio. I have tried it but my stream lags so much it was unwatchable

I love both WebCord and discord-screenaudio, but for me and a lot of my friends, streaming using any chromium application is a laggy mess, especially when streaming games! In result, I built this extension which feeds audio nodes to WebRTC streams, currently only works with Firefox and Pipewire. I have packaged it for NixOS, but I need package maintainers for other distros too. Anyone willing to help by packaging the native part of the extension or just contributing to the project, is welcome!

use flatpak to install `de.shorsh.discord-screenaudio` if you want to stream your games/desktop with video and audio. Otherwise, official, no support. https://github.com/maltejur/discord-screenaudio

If you're on Linux, screen audio just doesnt work full stop.

There are some modded versions of the discord app that get around it[0], I don't know exactly how they work but it does actually allow you share audio.

0: https://github.com/maltejur/discord-screenaudio

discord-screenaudio enables audio sharing on Linux by wrapping the web version of Discord into an Electron app and doing some magic with the media streams. You can install it by searching in the Discover Store or with flatpak install de.shorsh.discord-screenaudio. This is the solution I'd recommend, it works really well.

Discord-Screenaudio

Does that mean i can use [This screenshare client](https://github.com/maltejur/discord-screenaudio) And do the normal way of installing betterdiscord which is using the launcher or do i have to change paths or what?