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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 brigandish »

vosper wrote: post #46
brigandish wrote: post #24

The home page looks like it was designed by a 20 year old who lives in a world of Javascript package managers. Get someone over 50 in there to kick them and remind them that "Start a new meeting" with things like "LeopardBottomSniffer" appearing under it means nothing to anyone but developers. Here's a better design, in text: - Who are we? This is Jitsi Meet video conferencing - How do I use it? Just type a name for…

> The home page looks like it was designed by a 20 year old who lives in a world of Javascript package managers. > Get someone over 50 in there to kick them and remind them that "Start a new meeting" with things like "LeopardBottomSniffer" appearing under it means nothing to anyone but developers. I think this is a little overly ageist but yeah - if you're not familiar with the kind of URLs generated by services like…

I wouldn't say that any individual 20 year old would be more or less considerate of people outside their social circle / age bracket than a 50 year old, of course, I even know some who are[0]. As a cohort though, I've no qualms!

[0] They don't develop single page apps using the trendiest Javascript frameworks though, maybe there's a self-selection link ;-)

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by surround »

emcho wrote: post #157
surround wrote: post #136

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Jitsi meet is not end-to-end encrypted [1]. Rather, it is encrypted with TLS between the client and the server, which doesn’t provide the same security/privacy benefit at all. The website says it’s “fully encrypted,” which I think is misleading. [1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/README.md#se... Edit: WebRTC does not support end-to-end encryption for multiple peers. This means it’s impossible for any…

Signaling is indeed over HTTPS and media is encrypted with DTLS-SRTP. No browsers today support end-to-end encryption for multiparty calls. The advantage that Jitsi offers there is that you can stand it up on your own server in just a few minutes and get protection that is equivalent to end-to-end encryption.

Coincidentally, the edit I made to my comment is nearly identical to your comment. But now I’m outside the 1 hour window of being able to edit.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by MR4D »

zemo wrote: post #112
MR4D wrote: post #106

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

jitsi has dedicated apps for mobile https://jitsi.org/downloads/

Right. But I don’t want to have to tell a client to download an app. I’d rather they just go to a url like they do on an iPad. Not sure what the difference in browsers is between them, but I can’t imagine it’s much.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by ryukafalz »

the_arun wrote: post #151

What is their(Jitsi's) business model if it is free? How do they keep themselves up?

They're currently owned by a VoIP provider that I would guess uses some of the Jitsi tech in-house. They've been through a few acquisitions at this point and continue to maintain their free software, so I'm optimistic they'll continue to do so.

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Post by opan »

lpnotes wrote: post #132

I'm the creator of a remote-first community/open source project called CodeBuddies (a not-for-profit), and we built Jitsi into our hangouts (meetings anyone can schedule to pair program or study together) -- i.e. whenever someone schedules a hangout to meet with someone else in the community, we embed Jitsi as an iframe onto the event page. We initially used Google Hangouts for the project in 2014, and we've been usi…

Have you tried reporting these issues?

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Post by JeremyNT »

maxnoe wrote: post #175

I deployed it using the docker compose Config for my university group in our rancher cluster: https://github.com/jitsi-mee/docker-jitsi-meet We now use it for most meetings, works very well so far, several sessions in parallel with several dozen people at the same time (but mostly only using audio). Screen sharing works fine as well. We made the experience that they are unfortunately right about requiring chrome (chr…

It seems to work in Firefox despite the browser warning.

What do you use for authentication? Do you have an existing ldap server? I spooled up a server for neighbors and family to use on my personal vps and the user account management promises to be problematic using the internal auth mechanism.

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Post by paulryanrogers »

Nextgrid wrote: post #102
tootie wrote: post #57

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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 iO…

For my parents maintaining an Apple account is a bridge too far. Not even with their IOS devices. They use Duo a lot though.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by paulryanrogers »

wenc wrote: post #60

I wonder if anyone (who also has Zoom) could comment on how Jitsi actually compares to Zoom for 20+ people with full video? (since the title pits it against Zoom) I'm seeing comments how how good Jitsi is, but can someone categorically say Jitsi is comparable to or better than Zoom? The advantages of Zoom are ease of setup, smooth simultaneous video experience (tiled) for 20+ participants, and breakout rooms. The exp…

Beyond a certain scale there's also Big Blue Button, though it was very lecture focused last I tried it

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Post by InternetOfStuff »

ISO-morphism wrote: post #61
tootie wrote: post #57

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I can't convince anyone to not use Facetime.

Facetime has the best audio/video quality of any conferencing software I've used by a mile. If free software, vendor lock in, excluding those without Apple products, etc. etc. aren't sticking points for you, Facetime is awesome for a family/group of friends with iDevices.

> Facetime has the best audio/video quality of any conferencing software I've used by a mile.

Out of curiosity: can you compare it to Google Duo? Because it has the best quality and stability of any 1:1 product I've ever tried (never tried Facetime)

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by ashildr »

jacurtis wrote: post #168
eagsalazar2 wrote: post #164

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It isn't just a gimmick, it is a legit feature when working from home and you don't want everyone to see your messy kitchen or bedroom. Sadly the chrome app version you have to use for ChromeOS doesn't support that feature anyway :(

Confirming that it isn’t a gimmick. I have been working on distributed WFH Teams for the past 5 years now (long before COVID19) and this has been a consistent point of embarrassment and/or trouble with video conferencing. I can’t begin to tell you how many times we have had people that need extra time to prepare for a meeting because of the background. As a manager, I have had lots of personal conversations with empl…

I installed jitsi yesterday, it now has a „blur background“ option that is in beta and works okayish.
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