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It is there another alternative to Skype that is peer-to-peer, has encryption and works on Linux?
by rett12 10y ago
It is there another alternative to Skype that is peer-to-peer, has encryption and works on Linux?
- luxpir 10y agoA few, but none with enough momentum to win over the mainstream. See Tox, Vector/Matrix, Jitsi with OTR... Otherwise there are web-based solutions that work well. Is it talky.io? EDIT: Not forgetting Signal, of course. But I think you mean video comms?
- Arathorn 10y agoI'm cautiously impressed by Matrix's momentum, to be honest (although I'm biased given I work on it) - we've got over 300K users on the matrix.org server now and around 1000 other servers visible from matrix.org. Meanwhile Riot.im (the app previously known as Vector.im) is hopefully pretty mainstream friendly...
- ripdog 10y agoI'm looking forward to Matrix too. It's still very immature right now through, as (as I understand it) we're still waiting for E2E encryption on mobile and group video calling(?). It's hard to see Matrix as a standard right now too, with only one server and one client even remotely complete. Would love to see a multiplatform native client! Thanks for the work you do, I realllllly hope matrix attains some success.
- vetinari 10y agoSkype has not been peer-to-peer for years, already. You can safely remove peer-to-peer from your requirements for an alternative. If you are looking for an desktop app accessible to mainstream users, you can try viber.
- idobai 10y agoViber. You can also try Jitsi. There are many WebRTC-based services too(not peer-to-peer, though).
- GFischer 10y agoIf what you need is just the video part, try https://appear.in/ https://appear.in/