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I hadn’t noticed- or struggled with this, but I guess it makes sense.

The channels are primarily audio and stream focused, with users video being second in priority (makes sense when you consider its initial target audience).

So by default mic is active, video is not.

When you mute yourself, you get a “muted” indicator next to your name anyway.



Those defaults make sense, but the UI used to literally have the indicators swapped. (They seem to have fixed this since last time I used it.)




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