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.
For most people, they already have these account services and won’t really care about this.
For everyone else, they should probably already have an alternate instance anyway.
What’s openID?
https://wikipedia.org
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