Alternatives to Discord and Twitch (programming.dev)

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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.

On my side
Should I set up a webserver into which I feed an OBS 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.

On my friend's side
No idea how a windows user is supposed to receive such a video feed.

Edit: text and voice chat, we're considering Signal for.

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[-] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

My friends and I have been using Steam's group chat feature while waiting for an alternative. For streaming game play, we can use Steam's broadcast feature. The downside being we can only watch one stream at a time.

Fluxor is looking like a good Discord alternative, but it's too early to tell.

this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2026

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