Jitsi, the open-source video conferencing platform, now requires a Google, Microsoft, or Facebook account for their online service. - Beehaw (beehaw.org)

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While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si [http://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. If you prefer not to self-host Jitsi and be identifiable via your domain, there’s jami.net [http://jami.net] as a replacement for Jitsi. It is a decentralized conference app that requires you to install an app. However, it’s 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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[-] sudoreboot@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

The benefit of jitsi was how easy it was to just go to a link and get a videocall going. No account or software needed. It's no longer useful to me if I need to log in, because I don't have facebook or google accounts and I don't feel like fiddling around with 2FA bullshit to log in with github. I can't even log in to github at all on my phone for some reason.

[-] elgordio@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Whereby is pretty good. The host needs an account but all the participants can just visit a link, no account or application needed.

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