what do you use for screen sharing?

someoneFromInternet@lemmy.ml to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 43 points –

I know about rustdesk, and some other selfhosted solutions, but just wonder, what do you use if not screen sharing in discord.

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What is your issue with Rustdesk? I would understand if you mention Teamviewer, which runs through 3rd party servers, but Rustdesk? Is the client phoning home despite self-hosting or what do you mean? I am seriously interested.

On the other hand, I would not use RDP over the Internet without a VPN or at least an RDP Gateway in between both parties.

There has been a few controversies so here is the TLDR:

  • Rustdesk public relays have been caught using Chinese servers

  • The Rustdesk app is highly privileged for little reason. They abused this privilege to switch Wayland users to X silently

  • very little is known about the Rustdesk "team" if there even is one. There is a single github user called "rustdesk" and the personalities on the Rustdesk website appear to be fake.

  • Rustdesk says they are from Singapore but there are multiple leads that point to them being Chinese

  • They straight up delete any issue or discussion that questions the supposed Rustdesk "team"

That's just the summary that I know. You can find more information by looking up Rustdesk controversy or is Rustdesk a scam.

I thought the devs were Indian.

Thank you very much! Little did I know! I will look for alternatives now... MeshCentral is the next on my list I guess.

I forgot Meshcentral existed honestly. That's probably a much better option that RDP