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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If its open-source, couldn't somebody just fork it and remove the login requirement?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well looks like jitsis gone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The sky is falling the sky is falling!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well, time to find another instance, cause fuck that noise

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

How disappointing.

It was great for sharing private contact info with Google/Facebook/etc friends without revealing it to those invasive services. Instead of sharing your private address where it would be harvested, you could meet in an anonymous Jitsi room, exchange addresses there, and contact each other directly from then on.

Self-hosting doesn't solve that use case, unless perhaps you're willing to buy throw-away domains and IP addresses every time you do it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can also use matrix. Matrix currently uses jitsi. In the future it'll use "element call" but right now, jitsi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah. Thank you. Decent work around, still more steps sadly enough, but it'll have to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

RIP Jitsi ಠ_ಠ

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