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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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[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I guess I don't need their app anymore on my phone, then. More free space to me.

Though using an other instance as mentioned by other comments is also an option, I think the mobile app supports that too, even if it's a bit complicated

Edit: after reading the article, this might really not be their fault. At the end they also encourage the reader to host it themselves. They are not very transparent with what's the actual problem, though..

[-] rnd@beehaw.org 10 points 10 months ago

Yes, the mobile app supports third-party servers, though I wouldn't call it complicated.

If you want to join a room, all you do is type/paste the full URL to it instead of just the name. "Open in App" functionality will also work regardless of the server.

If you want to host one on a third-party server, you just go into the options and replace the "https://meet.jit.si" address with one of the third-party server. Then when you create a room, it will use that server.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Probably complicated isn't the best word, my issue with it is that if I understand it correctly, you would always need to change the server address if you need to connect to a meeting that was created at a different server

[-] rnd@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

If you paste in the complete URL to a meeting ("https://example.org/FourRandomEnglishWords" instead of "FourRandomEnglishWords") or use the "Open in App" link that a meeting's web page shows, then there's no need to.