Trying to find a way to be able to chat at a distance with my kids when playing Minecraft together online.

I’m having a really hard time finding a privacy focused video/audio chat that isn’t American or aimed at businesses.

Something like Signal would be perfect but they don’t have a phone so yeah…

I tried to set up Jami but it’s too difficult and it needs to be simple for them since the oldest is 10 :/

  • vaguerant@fedia.io
    0·
    2 days ago

    I use Matrix daily but I would hesitate to recommend giving it to children unless you’re able to set it up in such a way that they only have access to the rooms you configure–I don’t think any Matrix apps have parental control settings but I’ve never checked.

    Matrix has kind of miserable moderation options. Mods can’t do basic things like disabling attachments, which makes it prone to NSFL/NSFW image spam. The official automod bot, Mjolnir, can mitigate this somewhat, but can be pretty easily gamed. e.g. It tries to prevent image spam by deleting messages that have an image if they’re the first message a user sends in the channel–so spammers just send a message to highlight everybody first, then the images.

    When there’s nothing that needs moderating, Matrix is great. However, it is severely lacking in ways to handle abuse. If you’re in a community that’s being targeted by bad actors (like Jared Leto), you basically just have to deal with it; there’s very little you can do proactively.

  • Nils@lemmy.ca
    0·
    3 days ago

    Matrix is my favourite, and easy to use, you just need to pick a client that supports it https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/ (Element is the most common) and create an account. You can also self-host if you want more privacy/control.

    Signal has a desktop client, but sadly, it still needs a phone to work.

    I also use Steam chat for playing.

    A more direct alternative would be

    • Discord -> Revolt
    • Teamspeak -> Mumble