Switching to a self-hosted good old Teamspeak 6. Their screen sharing is very good, and audio quality is far above Discord. Overall it’s still need some polish but is okay.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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Is screen sharing available for self hosting? Last I checked (6 months ago) the TS server version wasn’t publicly available yet.
If it is I’ll give it another go!
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Isn't that closed source tho?
Maybe, but let’s deal with one crisis at a time
But isn't that the wrong approach?
If you want to choose something better, shouldn't be 'enshittificationability' be the main point you want to address? That is the reason discord is doing most of the bad stuff. Proprietary software is about enshittification.
I mean the issue at hand is discord enshittifying, TeamSpeak has been around for a lot longer and didn't do that (even when they were in discords position market wise) which also mlght be because their funding model is actually sustainable.
Sure they might enshittify later down the line anway but it's an alternative that's here now and solves the ossue at hand
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True. At least it’s self-hosted. I just hope some real alternative to Discord comes soon.
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did he not try stoat? he just put a bunch of question marks there.
I'd have thought if that was the case it'd be left out of the rankings.
I did. It isn't a viable selfhosted alternative atm unless you want to do actual dev work
If we're referring to the article in the link, being self-hosted didn't seem to be a hard requirement, merely that the app is a potential alternative.
You're correct. I think a lot of folks are looking for something decentralized/self-hostable to avoid the lock-in disaster that Discord has created, at least, I am. And I have found a dearth of alternatives! Good article, though.
So, if it was like Signal and didn't let you self host at all it would have ranked on this list?
How many of these have moderation issues? Like, unwanted content uploads and stuff. How many expose you to accidentally hosting illicit content?
That's their "safety" category in his rankings. They talk about moderation tools and risks like bad actors posting illicit content quite a bit, actually.
Wow, so signal ranks second worst in “safety” with a 2. While discord has a 4.
So it’s worse than discord at dealing with unwanted CSAM uploads? What a wild ranking system this guy has.
Tangential but figure eyes are probably on here:
Any good guides or discussions for setting up and running Matrix in a VPS? Been thinking on and off I should do that for a few months now (and lack of account migration means I either start with my own domain or forever use a generic).
Matrix ansible deployment script
Just to emphasize, this is the correct answer
should also look into conduit or one of its siblings, normal synapse is a dog to run
This reminds me that a saw someone like luisus rossman reccomend a discord like thing that worked as a better forum/wiki/discord for small developers that's shows up on web searches, I think it had real time chat but I can't remember
Found a new way to misspell his name
I can't imagine "Discourse"'s branding will survive for long.