I really wish Jitsi had taken off during lockdowns. MS Teams I can understand, businesses all use Microsoft, but Zoom is just vile shite.
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Jitsi has done a lot to improve functionality since lock down. Still pretty basic, but it's free and can do moderation.
And it's self-hostable.
Although it has always been a pain. Back when I used Nextcloud, I tried Nextcloud Talk which always had less problems for me and was much easier to set up.
I love Jitsi, I use it a lot at work but lately some attendants have problems to connect from other parts of the world and we end up going to Teams :/
So true. I prefer BBB a lot though.
BBB (Big Blue Button, for those unfamiliar) seems to be the favorite of lots of institutions in Germany. I think a government agency recommended its use, that's why it's so widespread.
Interesting. Yeah its very stable, supports tons of people in a room etc.
So do I. During lockdown a french hosting company set up bbb instances on their infrastructure, and the experience was really good (they even activated the "join with your phone" feature).
Zoom and Gmeet are usable (usually calls are stable and quality is ok) but closed-source shit, and I had a lot of stability issues on public jitsi instances (though I never self-hosted).
I've tried opentalk for the first time a few weeks ago (it's included in my email provider plan) and it worked fine.
Jitsi quality has always been really bad in my experience.
I know during COVID I tried Jitsi Meet eith a friend and we had quality issues using the FSF server. Zoom was way better. Have not conferenced since then. Plus way more people have Zoom installed, tested, and know how to use it.
Also Zoom, people can dial in by phone. My wife conferences with a friend where that is required.
Would prefer a FOSS alternative. Sadly above is our experience which shows why Zoom is way more popular.
Yeah that seems to be my experience, at least with public servers. I have my own Jitsi server running on a N100 mini PC but have not tested extensively. Send me a message if you want to try it.
@helenslunch @furrowsofar I'm very happy with https://meet.coop - runs on BigBlueButton, secure and Open Source, but not free. But I don't mind paying for a good service.
It did, didn't it? It became so popular that meet.jit.si had to shutdown. Fortunately theres tons of free ones run by other orgs.
they use https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway as the webrtc backend, at least according to https://opentalk.eu/en/open-source-code-und-community. so the rust part is probably just for chat and signaling.
What's wrong with jitsi tho?