Notices tagged with jitsimeet

@rek2 you left out #Jami, which has a much more consistent #UX across platforms than #Tox (eg none of the Tox mobile apps I've tried support group chat). You also left out #BigBlueButton, which I keep hearing is much less of a resource hog on the server-side than #JitsiMeet, and I can confirm JM is a massive resource hog on the client-side. I haven't used #Discord but I've heard #Riot (#Matrix client) is a pretty good substitute?

@musicman I keep hearing that #JitsiMeet is a massive resource hog. Have you evaluated #BigBlueButton as a possible alternative? You can try out the UX using the Community Room on the BBB instance #NZOSS is running:
https://nzoss.nz/covid-19-response-help-those-working-home

@mark
> I've used Voip on #Matrix before

You mean you've used #VoIP on #Riot, yes? That's a workaround that connects to a centralized server on matrix.org (running #JitsiMeet I believe?), it's not actually federated. So a Signal-on-Matrix fork would have to either set up their own VoIP server (and figure out how to pay for it), or find a decentralized VoIP solution (which is why I suggested Jami).

@Blort the only thing that worries me about NextCloud Talk is it uses #WebRTC and works in-browser, so it might suffer from the same issues as #JitsiMeet, #PalavaTV etc. On the WebRTC stacks I've tried, you need a fairly late model computer and a pretty fast internet connection to get them to do anything beyond text chat.

@ericbuijs #JitsiMeet is a totally different thing to what I'm describing. As it happens, you are the first person I've ever spoken to who is satisfied with it's UX. It seems to require massive amounts of processing power/ RAM on the users' systems to perform well enough to be anywhere near usable.

Yet another reason not to use #Zoom's proprietary video conferencing service. They care more about their public image than their users' security, and lie about trying to silence security researchers doing responsible disclosure with hush money:
https://proprivacy.com/privacy-news/dark-side-of-bug-bountys

There are a number of hosted or self-hostable alternatives, including #JitsiMeet, as well as #P2P conferencing apps like #Jami, and protocols like #Tox.

@banjofox hmm. It's possible I'm failing to understand how Discord is used (having never used it). I was under the impression it's predominantly a text chat room system, like Slack or Riot. Are you saying it's more like a voice conference system? In which case, have you tried #Mumble? The voice chat in Riot uses a plugin to connect to a #JitsiMeet server hosted at #Matrix.org. It's pretty centralized. I'd love to see them implement the #Jami protocol for voice/ video chat instead.

On a related note, I'd also be curious to test a #Riot fork using a #Mumble widget for voice conferences instead of #JitsiMeet.
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@wowaname
#Wire is an #Electron app too. I still find it better than using the web app. When I care a lot more about resource usage than #UX (eg when recording a podcast with a remote co-host or guest) I use #Mumble. It would be cool if someone forked the Mumble clients and replaced the #IRC-a-like UI with an IM one. Or a #Riot fork using a Mumble widget for voice conferences instead of #JitsiMeet.
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Thanks. @fdroidorg inclusion requests have exposed a number of "open source" Android apps as having non-free dependencies and spyware bundled with them. It seems like the #JitsiMeet app is in that category. It would be great to see app developers acknowledging those issues and working on them, instead of seeing it as the community's job ;)

Anyone know why the #JitsiMeet app for #Android isn't available on #FDroid?