I’m honestly surprised it’s used that much. My guild (mostly working fathers) used to use TS3 and once discord appeared we switched there for the ease of it. Still used it mostly as voice chat with text channels being nice to have. But screen sharing? Pretty much non existent, quite a few people streamed on twitch, so we never really needed it.

Same with all the other groups I’m part of there. It’s always text + voice, also GIF and meme spam and stuff. But screen share? Virtually zero.

That’s why I’m so surprised.

bringing disparate groups together under a single app

Yep, that’s pretty much how I’d like to see it done. Similar to lemmy/piefed, where I can reply to your comment from different server. E.g. Fluxer have something like this in their roadmap, fingers crossed.

First one of those contenders that solves federation in a nice way would be a winner. Quite a lot of them has it on their roadmap so my hopes are not completely lost.

I have no first person experience but I’ve read Matrix’ lack of “Discord-like server” grouping is terrible for moderation where you have to manually set permissions for each “room”. If that’s actually true it’s literally impossible for it to become proper discord alternative.

Do people really use screen share that much? (Sadly) I use discord to reach a lot of my friends for multiple years and we actually used screen share maybe twice? Three times?

There are actually many, many options. It’s hard to guess which one will get the momentum and lift off though. You probably don’t want to convince all your friends to switch to another platform just to see it die in half a year…

Well, Discord’s UI is certainly not the holy grail, but it’s quite functional and people are used to it. So it’s pretty much logical you copy the concept to some extent when you want to appeal to these people?

I’ve seen mentioned these:

• Stoat - pretty much same UI, based in UK, not sure where they get $$
• Fluxer - looks virtually like 1:1 Discord clone, based in Sweden, has paid tier pretty much like Nitro on Discord on official server
• Nerimity - a little different UI, but still very Discord-y, based in UK, sourced from donations
• Movim - this one is interesting, but it’s not really Discord style app; it looks more like cross breed between IM and social network (FB/X), origin in France
• Strafe - looks like Discord, supposedly have e2ee
• Spacebar - reverse engineered Discord, IDK about maturity of this one
• Adapt - another wanna be

Yes, unfortunately I have a windows laptop that has to stay on windows.

Don’t worry about me, I’ll definitely break a lot of things in the process :-)

OK, I’ll see. I have a tiny bit of exposure to Proxmox at work so I know it’s not easy, but since it will be my HW I can fuck it up as much as I want without getting fired :-)

My thought process of OMV vs TrueNAS is that TrueNAS might be a little bit overkill when the only thing I’d want is to share the space (either NFS or SMB). I had to upgrade the RAM in the Asustor just to install it in the first place…

Thank you. I’ll see how my free time will look and how far and how fast I’ll progress.

OK, good.

Do you see any reason not to use SMB in my case or is it just NFS 'cause it’s propper linux thing?

I’ll see what I can do once I manage to spin the Proxmox up. Thank you for heads up.

I meant less confident like I am not confident enough to run it properly. Setting it up with zero experience with how it works or how ZFS works was quite intimidating for me.

How do you share the storage with Proxmox? NFS or SMB/CIFS? Do you access stored data only through Proxmox or do you also connect to Truenas directly?