Authentication on meet.jit.si - Jitsi
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What’s going on? Starting on August 24th, we will no longer support the anonymous creation of rooms on meet.jit.si, and will require the use of an account (we will be supporting Google, GitHub and Facebook […]

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.

  • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Just destroyed everything they built in 1 fell swoop. There's absolutely no reason to use Jitsi at this point.

    Retracting comment. Jitsi is still great, you just need to avoid the official instance.

    • splendoruranium@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      Just destroyed everything they built in 1 fell swoop. There’s absolutely no reason to use Jitsi at this point.

      They built a great software. The software is still there.
      meet.jit.si is just a demo instance for the software, nothing more. You're supposed to use the software yourself.

      • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Yes, I see that now, looking further into it. Framasoft has a very easy and intuitive instance at framatalk.org