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Best zoom alternative?
by elevenoh 7y ago
Best zoom alternative?
- drusepth 7y agoI switched from Zoom to Google Duo almost a year ago and haven't had any issues.
- luto 7y agoJitsi, Google Meet, bigbluebutton -- anything can runs in a browser tab and is more or less confined within it.
- Aachen 7y agoDon't know bigbluebutton but at least among Jitsi and Google Meet, Wire is an alternative that is open source and end to end encrypted. They just don't make it easy to host your own, for that I guess Jitsi is the best way to go.
- behnamoh 7y agoBut how do they remain in business? I'm interested in knowing how say, Jitsi, earns money off of it.
- oehtXRwMkIs 7y agoIts wikipedia article describes its funding. It's basically a combination of sponsorships and paid employees working on it.
- throwaway1777 7y agoZoom works in the browser
- adtac 7y agoI wouldn't be surprised if Zoom suddenly started exploiting browser zero days to force install things "for your own good"
- saagarjha 7y agoGood thing that this is somewhat difficult to do ;)
- mrzool 7y agoWe just started using Whereby and we’re loving it. I strongly recommended against Zoom.
- latexr 7y agoI recommend against Whereby. I was a big proponent when they started as appear.in, but they’ve been steadily removing features (or moving them to the paid plan). For my friend group, the biggest appeal was that you could use it in a browser without an account by inventing a room name. That was one of the first features to get cut. Everyone I’ve ever recommended it to has bumped into the limitations, asked me “what happened”, and switched to something else. I haven’t tried it extensively, but I’ve read about https://meet.jit.si/ https://meet.jit.si/ on HN and passed it on to a friend in that situation. He was happy with it and described it as “what appear.in used to be”.
- emmelaich 7y agoGoogle Duo have raised the people per meeting from 4 to 12.
- wlesieutre 7y agoBut can they raise the expected product lifespan from 4 years to 12?
- m0rganic 7y agolifesize