#indieweb 2025-04-19

2025-04-19 UTC
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[jeremycherfas] My need for a Skype replacement is slightly different. The audio quality on Skype is really good if the caller disables automatic gain and so I use it to record interviews for my podcast if Factime is not an option. I haven’t yet tried the free version of Teams, but the paid version sucks for that, as does almost every other option.
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doesnm [jeremycherfas]: did you need video or only audio?
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doesnm for only audio look mumble. For only screen sharing look at screego.net
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jeremycherfas I dont need video. (Aside: do people really watch podcasts on YouTube, where all you see is talking heads, as much as SEO spammers would have me believe?)
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jeremycherfas Mumble audio is good? Need to check it out again.
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jeremycherfas I was going to complain that nobody would install a client just to use Mumble on a single interview, and of course they wouldn't do that for Skype either. But a lot of people had Skype already because it was really good. Still is.
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doesnm try this https://github.com/Johni0702/mumble-web
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Loqi [preview] [Johni0702] mumble-web: An HTML5 Mumble client
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Zegnat We tried mumble web for online HWC at some point. I think the best way I could say about it was that it worked. I do not fully remember if we actually got Mumble web to work well ... sknebel might be able to remind me
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Zegnat What is mumble?
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Loqi Mumble is open-source voice chat software, with clients available for both desktop and mobile, as well as web browsers https://indieweb.org/Mumble
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Zegnat mumble-web “is a bit fiddly” according to the page, but it looks like it might still be there :o
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sknebel tbh not sure my hosted one still works, I think I might have killed mumble at some point
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sknebel and yeah, the web one was iffy
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sknebel but also underlying tech and browser APIs have hcanged a lot, I imagine today nicer solutions are possible
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sknebel e.g. for podcasting local recording on both ends makes sense, a website could do that nowadays
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Zegnat I imagine jeremycherfas would want a service that then does the local recording and sending it to him without having to separately instruct the podcast guests
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doesnm castopod?
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[snarfed] nah I think that's for hosting, not recording
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[snarfed] there are a ton of web-based podcast recording studio apps. Riverside, Anchor, Spotify has one, etc
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[snarfed] ...but we may want to take discussion to #indieweb-random
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jeremycherfas -> #random
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[KevinMarks] On Mac I've used QuickTime Player to make a local recording alongside the Zoom chat - that's what On The Media suggested.
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jeremycherfas And a very good suggestion, to someone who knows what they are doing. On the other hand, if someone has a Mac, they almost always have Facetime too.
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[fluffy] https://www.reddit.com/r/indieweb/comments/1k171ep/this_sub_is_dead/
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aaronpk i didn't even know there was an r/indieweb
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[fluffy] It’s super inactive
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doesnm lol it can't be viewed from web. Ok, alt frontends time
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[fluffy] You have to be signed in I think
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[fluffy] Maybe joined?
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[fluffy] Which is of course the real reason why the sub is dead, nothing to do with IndieWeb itself
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doesnm [fluffy]: i don't have account in reddit. Why i should use silos?
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[fluffy] I mean I agree
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doesnm https://rl.bloat.cat/r/indieweb/comments/1k171ep/this_sub_is_dead/ some peoples in comments suggest good things
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[snarfed] you don't have to be logged in to read it. doesnm maybe you mean it can't be viewed without JS?
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doesnm [snarfed]: no, i mean this: https://doesnm.cc/Screenshot_20250419-223208.png
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Zegnat Interesting, I did not get that pop-up browsing to it on desktop.
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Zegnat But I do get it on my phone ... it really is just to push you to the mobile app it seems
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Zegnat doesnm: my tip for if you ever want to access reddit on a mobile device, switch it to old.reddit.com e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/indieweb
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Zegnat That gets rid of a lot of those pushes
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osteophage Quoting from one of the reddit comments:
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osteophage > Thanks for the link to the news page, I did nor know that. indieweb.org itself was one reason why I was asking about the state of 'the IndieWeb' since the page does not give the impressio of being updated regularly and most content seems rather old -- and some of it not too well curated, to be honest.
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osteophage Anyone have thoughts on which pages should be updated?
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IWDiscord <o​steophage>
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[snarfed] Hmm no they have a separate prompt to push you to the app. Interesting that that one is phone-only
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Zegnat [snarfed]: the “view in app” button feels like a push to the app to me ;) Though it is weird that unreviewed content somehow becomes OK when viewed in their app
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doesnm Zegnat: redlib is better choice for me
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Zegnat yes, if you know of alternative front-ends, and have a hosted instance that is live, you can use that too
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[Jo] often with reddit it gives me the page that i need to be logged in to see anything. at that point i just go somewhere else
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