We were testing #galene as an alternative to #discord video/voice-chat in online #ttrpg sessions today. (In addition to #irc as a chat that is)
It worked fine. Galene has really low ressource demands and we had multiple people in the chat on two continents with good quality video and multiple simultaneous screenshare windows at the same time.
If discord enshittifies too much I think we at least have a way to play our games.
That said it's really a no frills experience in comparison to discord... or literally nearly anything else. It was created for an academic environment, so the original audience was with people in a lecture/conference situation.
But that's also a boon. It's easy to just run a session, add a window of some application to present, or even multiple, and have a go at it
@phf had the idea of adding a second camera stream for a dice tray, and that sounds decadent but also like a cool idea
@kyonshi That sounds pretty cool. I have been looking for something like this for quite a while to get away from Discord where nobody really knows what happens with your data. Well, in fact, one does know...