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Jitsi, the open-source video conferencing platform, now requires a Google, Microsoft, or Facebook account for their online service (jitsi.org)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by esaru@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

ITT: People not understanding the difference between a free publicly hosted instance and the OSS tool itself.

[-] esaru@beehaw.org 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is about the free publicly hosted instance, used by the majority of the Jitsi users, who used it because they didn't have to login with a Google/Facebook/Github account. Which they now have to.