cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7363991
While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si, for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a “Know Your Customer” policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account.
One option to avoid this is to self-host, but then you’ll be identifiable via your domain and have to maintain a server.
As a true alternative to Jitsi, there’s jami.net. It is a decentralized conference app, free open-source, and account creation is optional. It’s available for all major platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android), including on F-Droid.
This almost sounds like a 5D chess move to promote using alternative instances instead of the main demo. I’m thinking of selfhosting one for my friends group.
Requiring an acc is understandable but making it Meta/MS and not even something like openID really kills the vibe.
If you’re gonna RTFM me like that at least do it properly https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=what is openid 😝
I asked because from the name it looked too generic to find with a simple search, but I guess I was wrong, I just overthought it
That is a massive disappointment. Hopefully Element gets their video calls sorted. Why can I not just have privacy tools that I can use? Why are the good ones taken away?
Short answer is that a lot of privacy-focused tools get abused like hell and put these companies in an untenable position. It sounds like Jitsi had something fairly bad happening that would’ve put them in a regulatory pinch.
But the companies chosen for login is a slap in the face of anyone who cares about privacy.
If it is e2e encrypted, why would this change mitigate what they are concerned about?
“Slap in the face” is a bit dramatic when this doesn’t impact the truly private version of this software, the version you host on a system you control.
I’m also not sure what end-to-end encryption has to do with this since preventing the sign up of an abusive user essentially addresses the issue. It’s probably not something they’d wanna do but I’d wager they were getting some subpoenas and/or warrants that they couldn’t provide much information for and LEOs were ratcheting up pressure. Unfortunately, the legal side of tech is more than “ha ha can’t do that, officer”.
Because privacy is not a lucrative business. And the opposite is incredibly lucrative.
I don’t remember Element using the Jitsi Team’s instance. Element.io had their own so this shouldn’t affect it’s Matrix users at all.
Just destroyed everything they built in 1 fell swoop. There’s absolutely no reason to use Jitsi at this point.
Retracting comment. Jitsi is still great, you just need to avoid the official instance.
Or just use another instance.
https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-instances/
Just destroyed everything they built in 1 fell swoop. There’s absolutely no reason to use Jitsi at this point.
They built a great software. The software is still there.
meet.jit.si is just a demo instance for the software, nothing more. You’re supposed to use the software yourself.
Yes, I see that now, looking further into it. Framasoft has a very easy and intuitive instance at framatalk.org
I didn’t realize how many community run servers were out there.
https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-instances/
I found this new community that is about finding new jitsi meet instances. Good place to find other instances so far.
