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With the recent news about discord asking for face or ID scan, what other alternatives are there that we can recommend to our less tech-savvy friends?

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[โ€“] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I would imagine the limiting factors would be bandwidth and compute - I imagine discord offloads some of the processing on their servers to make sharing such a smooth experience, while services like Twitch intentionally introduce delay to make stream sniping more difficult.

So for OBS, the most difficult part of having a low latency stream to another person is having a strong, speedy connection, and a beefy enough gpu/cpu to handle the encoding quality necessary.

[โ€“] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 16 hours ago

have tried running am rtmp server, for some reason even on my local network and very low res/quality it was awfully slow sadly.. :/