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Ask HN: Secure Zoom Alternative
What is everyone using instead of zoom given the security concerns?
- maxbaines 6y agoJitsi and 8x8 https://meet.jit.si/ https://meet.jit.si/
- xupybd 6y agoThat looks great but is the room access security the obscurity of the room name?
- maxbaines 6y agoYou can set a password for the room in the bottom left panel.
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- pacamara619 6y agoNo, it is not.
- nikolay 6y agoJitsi Meet is a clone of Google Meet; Zoom is a different product. Although Jitsi borrows some features, it lacks strict control. When working with young students, you understand why there needs to be stricter control on who can talk, who can present, raise hands, run polls, etc.
- collyw 6y agoJitsi is good but it makes CPUs run hot.
- nikolay 6y agoJitsi and Google Meet both use WebRTC. Although it sounds like a great technology, it's really CPU taxing and not inclusive as some of our students didn't have high-end hardware and connection, and we just couldn't run our school on Jitsi/Google Meet. However, Zoom in the browser is equally bad, so, it's subpar on Chromebooks.
- LynseyMo 6y agoRestream Studio is great
- nikolay 6y agoIt is not the same product.
- 2rsf 6y agoSkype for business (when it works, doesn't degrade to low quality or disconnect)
- fsflover 6y agoSee also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22946264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22946264 Ask HN: What are some open source alternative to Zoom 30 points by blohs 42 days ago | 19 comments
- nikisweeting 6y agoWhereBy.com is great, it's pure p2p WebRTC for the smaller rooms, but >=12 ppl rooms use a bounce server that they host.
- emptysongglass 6y agop2p.chat does what it says on the tin. It worked a treat using Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04. No screensharing though!
- emptysongglass 6y agoReplying to my own comment because the editing time has expired to also give a shout out to Nextcloud Talk. Never mind that all of Nextcloud is already a huge groupware boon of FOSS goodness, the new Nextcloud 19 just dropped with big improvements to Talk like scalable video quality.
- sharathr 6y agohttps://jamm.app https://jamm.app
- nikolay 6y agoIt is not the same product.
- stevefan1999 6y agoIf video chats are not necessary, I think Matrix/Riot.IM would be cool. Edit: oh Riot does have video chat https://about.riot.im/why-riot https://about.riot.im/why-riot