Re:Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CE...
by MichaelZuo on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @07:25PM
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Is it really that difficult to use discord for it’s original intended purpose?
Back in the day Teamspeak or mumble were hassle free.
Re:Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CE...
by jareklupinski on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @07:41PM
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it definitely used to be easier, i have a distinct memory of us being able to stream No Man's Sky around launch day to each other with sound mixing being handled automagically by discord with no hassle (we wanted to see if we could see each other if we stood at the same place at the same time (we couldn't))
teamspeak and mumble were definitely easier to start up and use once you get up and running the first time, i think i remember having to either install drivers or something else to get stuff like global push-to-speak and other core features to work
"can you hear me? I can hear you but not the game? ok now i can hear the game but not you? ok now i can hear the game bleeding through your mic? did you set up a virtual audio cable? is your mic patched through correctly?" every single time.
sometimes i just want to scroll reddit with friends, or watch a part of a dvd with friends, or play pubg mobile with friends, but i dont want to break out a display splitter and ask them to log in to a centralized service and accept an endless barrage of cookie banners and "Do you accept our new terms?" checkboxes and watch ads just to watch some memes with me (after i spend 30 minutes figuring out how their API changed so i can keep streaming the way i figured out how to already do it without issues just last week)
why cant i just send my pixels to my friends via bittorrent or some other protocol