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Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

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Re: Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

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Post by Old_Thrashbarg »

GrassFedAltCoin wrote: post #4

I try to use open source tools wherever possible with my team. Can anyone experienced with both share how this compares to Zoom or Hangouts? Is it reliable?

I've been using Jitsi and Google Hangouts for years, and in terms of reliability/quality, I can't really tell any difference. Haven't used Zoom much.

The nice thing about about Jitsi is it's the most simple process I've seen: just tell people to go to a simple vanity URL (URL you get to design) and that's all. I sometimes find Hangouts confusing with all the invitation, accepting, etc.

For people I videochat with often, I just say "jump on Jitsi?", then start typing in URL bar which autocompletes and boom, we're chatting

Re: Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

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Post by sonofgod »

Old_Thrashbarg wrote: post #11
GrassFedAltCoin wrote: post #4

I try to use open source tools wherever possible with my team. Can anyone experienced with both share how this compares to Zoom or Hangouts? Is it reliable?

I've been using Jitsi and Google Hangouts for years, and in terms of reliability/quality, I can't really tell any difference. Haven't used Zoom much. The nice thing about about Jitsi is it's the most simple process I've seen: just tell people to go to a simple vanity URL (URL you get to design) and that's all. I sometimes find Hangouts confusing with all the invitation, accepting, etc. For people I videochat with oft…

Bear in mind that your URL is your password, and you might occasionally get randos joining you if it's too simple a URL. Happened to me once at work, got some giggling people whilst we were pairing, they then hung up immediately :)

Re: Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

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Post by maqp »

montroser wrote: post #16

Not open source but we've been using https://team.video for our standup calls. The timer feature in the agenda sidebar can be pretty handy sometimes.

I think it's unwise to offer

1) proprietary solutions in the age of surveillance capitalism.

2) offer in-browser cryptography to ensure security. I don't see any end-to-end encryption elements in that. Your data gets essentially delivered to the service. Do we really want that? Haven't the companies like FB already shown you should never trust them with your data? I mean, I'm baffled to see people would go in circles and instead of realizing the fundamental fault (lack of privacy by design), they go for the next vendor who promises not to abuse their data. Well no surprise there, for these services the business model IS the data. And it will never change unless they prove it won't be used by switching on E2EE and allowing anonymous registration and use via Tor.

At least back in the day Jitsi offered E2EE for VoIP and video with ZRTP + SRTP. I'm not sure what the case is now but people, think twice before you sign up to these "free" and fun one-click sites.

Re: Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

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Post by ChristianBundy »

ddevault wrote: post #10

We were using this for a while to do meetings for sr.ht, but we recently switched to - believe it or not - Mumble. It's old and unsexy but damn it's reliable.

Mumble is great, we use it lots for working on Secure Scuttlebutt, but we end up using Jitsi for calls between small groups with fast internet because video chat is nice with friends.

I would love to use something like Mumble but with video, although that may just be Jitsi.

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