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I wish there was a better alternative to Zoom. Both for work and for spending time with friends. Not just video and audio, but a virtual space and the ability
by Kinrany 6y ago
I wish there was a better alternative to Zoom. Both for work and for spending time with friends.
Not just video and audio, but a virtual space and the ability to have multiple conversations at once. A mix of Mozilla Hubs and Roblox's infrastructure.
- fsflover 6y agoWhat's wrong with Jitsi [0,1] and Jami [2]? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669968 [1] https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-announces-freedom-respecting-videoconferencing-for-its-associate-members https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-announces-... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24810464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24810464
- kop316 6y agoThat is what I was wondering too. Jitsi Meet is really nice.
- npsimons 6y agoI'll throw in BigBlueButton[0]; it's been working nicely for me and my hobby groups to hold meetings on a VPS at DigitalOcean. [0] https://bigbluebutton.org/ https://bigbluebutton.org/
- guerby 6y agoAlso https://bigbluebutton.org/ https://bigbluebutton.org/ On an ubuntu 16.04 see https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-install https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-install one liner to install the whole thing.
- Kinrany 6y agoAren't both exactly the same as Zoom, just free?
- fsflover 6y agoThere's a huge difference between free and non-free. You probably miss that it's not about price but freedom: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-impor...
- captn3m0 6y agohttps://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/voicevideochat https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/voicevideoch... Real-time voice and video chat is on the priority list :)