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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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by 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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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Possibly stupid question: if they found out that people were doing illegal stuff on it, doesn't that mean that they were monitoring people's conferences? I thought that the FOSS community was big on privacy.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago

    I imagine they're receiving reports from other parties, such as law enforcement, that there are inappropriate things happening, rather than monitoring the streams themselves.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Théry are plenty of FOSS people who don't believe in privacy. Just because you like openness in one thing doesn't mean you want it in another. Though there is probably a larger overlap.

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