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>Darn that global Internet, allowing people to use unauthorized chat clients with impunity! The problem here is that people are chosing to use Disord despite t

>Darn that global Internet, allowing people to use unauthorized chat clients with impunity! The problem here is that people are chosing to use Disord despite the fact that it is so stupidly proprietary. If Discord actually enforced it's rules all the time there'd have been far fewer teamspeak/irc/mumble/etc people lured into it's walled garden. It is a literal bait and switch. So it's important to point out a large fraction of the ways people do use Discord are actually very much against the TOS and could be prosecuted under the CFAA as felonies if Discord corporate thought they were rocking the boat and decided to buy a district attorney. It's the worst of both worlds.

NavinF 3y ago
> people are chosing to use Disord despite the fact that it is so stupidly proprietary This has zero relevance to normal users. Does teamspeak/irc/mumble/etc even support live streaming with screen+audio capture to a group chat? That's a pretty basic feature in 2023. I'm not aware of any serious open source competitors in this space
- lightedman 3y ago
  "Does teamspeak/irc/mumble/etc even support live streaming with screen+audio capture to a group chat?" pIRCh98 had video chat support, and back then we used some wrapper from FRAPS to do our screen captures. Of course, back then, video chat was such a niche thing. Everyone else is actually late to the game - IRC had this capability before the majority of known players.
  - NavinF 3y ago
    > pIRCh98 Proprietary software. I guess the answer to my question is no, there are no open-source competitors in this space.