For those that don’t know, rabb.it was a site where you basically had a chatroom and a virtual pc that was shared to everyone in the room. It was used to get together and watch youtube/plex/netflix/whatever together, and everyone was able to control the browser on the virtual PC. I don’t even think you needed to have an account to join a room, but it’s been so long I don’t remember anymore.

So I’m looking for something like that, just a virtual PC/browser + chatroom that people can join and watch/control, ideally without even needing to make an account. Does something like that exist?

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    1 year ago

    I think Neko might fit the bill. I used it for a couple years on a VPS and it was perfectly adequate for my needs. Keep in mind that it’s a resource hog and has no arm64 support the last time I checked. It’s hosting an X11 session with a chrome browser window (by default) and streaming it over webrtc.

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      1 year ago

      This is precisely what I was looking for, thanks. Seems like the dev was inspired by the old rabb.it site as well and created it once it was shut down

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        1 year ago

        That’s great! Hopefully you get some use out of it. IIRC it was relatively straight forward to get stood up. I probably have a docker-compose kicking around somewhere. If you’d like to see it, just let me know.