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Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by warrenm »

enriquto wrote: post #89
warrenm wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had several connecting via hotspotting their phone on a single CPU, 2G VPS

Several how many? 5 or 25 ? Can I reliably teach to a small classroom using it?

5

And their connections sucked

But my Jitsi instance was fine

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by Nextgrid »

tootie wrote: post #57
ISO-morphism wrote: post #26

I've tried Jitsi Meet and found it to be smooth. During a hangout call with a group of ~8 friends I introduced it as an alternative. User experience comparison: Onboarding: Jitsi: Click a URL. No accounts. Hangouts: Google account. Need to individually invite other Google accounts. Video Quality: Jitsi: Decent, slightly better than hangouts. Hangouts: Passable but grainy. Video Layout: Jitsi: Automatically big-screen…

I can't convince anyone to not use Facetime.

FaceTime has the best UX of all the solutions I've seen so far.

Seamless integration in the OS as long as you're in the Apple ecosystem and lightweight native clients (it seems to use hardware encoding/decoding does not make my fans spin like Zoom or any browser-based solution). No accounts or meeting/room IDs to remember or join, it just works with Apple IDs (which you're already logged into) or phone numbers for iOS devices (which work even if you somehow don't use an Apple ID).

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by skylerwshaw »

lytedev wrote: post #75
Naac wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What version of Firefox? What OS? Can confirm Firefox-dev on Linux has no working video.

Firefox preview on my phone in desktop mode worked FWIW.

If that's on iOS, you're not actually using Firefox since it uses Apple's Webkit.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by bonestamp2 »

amrx101 wrote: post #100

I can't seem to schedule meeting like Zoom?

I assume the use case there is that you create a meeting and then put the link in the calendar invite that you send. But, I'd like to know more about how long your "own" that meeting URL before it expires. I'll ask in the jitsi forums.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by MR4D »

ISO-morphism wrote: post #26

I've tried Jitsi Meet and found it to be smooth. During a hangout call with a group of ~8 friends I introduced it as an alternative. User experience comparison: Onboarding: Jitsi: Click a URL. No accounts. Hangouts: Google account. Need to individually invite other Google accounts. Video Quality: Jitsi: Decent, slightly better than hangouts. Hangouts: Passable but grainy. Video Layout: Jitsi: Automatically big-screen…

The url simplicity is nice, but it doesn’t work on an iPhone which is weird because it works on an iPad.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by ElijahLynn »

ISO-morphism wrote: post #26

I've tried Jitsi Meet and found it to be smooth. During a hangout call with a group of ~8 friends I introduced it as an alternative. User experience comparison: Onboarding: Jitsi: Click a URL. No accounts. Hangouts: Google account. Need to individually invite other Google accounts. Video Quality: Jitsi: Decent, slightly better than hangouts. Hangouts: Passable but grainy. Video Layout: Jitsi: Automatically big-screen…

I proposed Zoom vs Jitsi Meet the other day for a virtual hangout with a group of friends. They initially wanted to try Zoom... because of the virtual backgrounds. Yup, that is what they wanted.

I shall suggest Jitsi Meet again soon ;).

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by ironmagma »

enriquto wrote: post #65

It's very disheartening that when you try to connect with firefox, it says you should use chrome. This is a direct stab in the heart of the people who would favor it over zoom because it is free software.

It really shouldn’t matter that much — using some open source software is better than using none.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by Nextgrid »

I looked at Jitsi recently as I was thinking about self-hosting it (I have the bandwidth).

My concerns:

It seems to be based on XMPP and require an XMPP server. They offer a quick-start guide on configuring it however I am not sure how secure the default configuration is - I'm worried the quick start guide is about "get it working", not "make it secure" and I don't have XMPP knowledge nor the desire to learn a complicated protocol just to be able to run this securely.

Why does it need an XMPP server? I do not want nor care about XMPP and everyone will be joining via browsers anyway. As far as I'm concerned it's just one (very big) moving part that I don't want to be responsible for.

Overall it left a sour & sad taste in my mouth. There's no way I'm putting this thing on the public Internet; the attack surface seems too large and too many opportunities to screw it up.

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