cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26986197

Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch for the moment, this isnt lazy either, they changed the whole screenshare flow to suit linux’s permission prompts

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipOP
      20·
      1 day ago

      literally not a single person i know uses matrix, and calls aren’t supported on most clients, so getting them to switch would be literally impossible.

      • bruhSoulzEnglish
        62·
        1 day ago

        Idk brah I managed to make 3/5 friends switch to it and we almost exclusively use that to chat, and now got 2-3 family members to use it when talking to me too

    • 8osm3rka@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 day ago

      Element is a messenger and will never have the UX of Discord. There is Revolt, which is actually similar to discord but self-hostable

      • bruhSoulzEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        Has screen sharing a video calls and group calls and working on addons/extensions, not sure what more people would expect from a project of its size

        • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          from a project of its size

          Ok but you know that people don’t care about this part at all when they’re looking for alternatives to actually use, right?