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Hooray for centralisation of infrastructure!
by AlecSchueler 4y ago
Hooray for centralisation of infrastructure!
- jeromegv 4y agoNot the best example as there's likely a dozen service someone could switch to. People choose Zoom mostly because they like it, not by lack of choice.
- whoomp12342 4y agowell there should be more competitors I actually like.
- geraldwhen 4y agoBusinesses aren’t willing to pay, and thus they don’t exist.
- noirbot 4y agoThey aren't? Every company I've worked at pays through the nose for one of GTM/Zoom/BlueJeans/Lifesize/Chime. Zoom is definitely the least bad of them in my experience, not that I like it at all. Lack of customers willing to pay doesn't seem to have stopped there from being a bounty of terrible alternatives.
- xigoi 4y agoIt's the host that chooses the platform, participants don't get to choose.
- whoomp12342 4y agoisnt it funny how we love decentralization in the cloud but that really just consolidates our resources to 3 main companies? like, yes I get it multi regions makes you safer, but given vendor lock if aws fucks up across the board with a bug, we all fuck up across the board.
- practice9 4y agoI thought WebRTC solved some of these problems, but seems like peer discovery would still need to be centralised in some way. Are there any protocols that would solve this? (excluding email or blockchain both of which would require additional extensions or standards to create a solution with smooth UX)
- avrionov 4y agoUnfortunately WebRTC provides only part of the features needed to build Web Conferencing app. The main issue is that p2p connections don't work for more 5 attendees in the same session. After that is better to have MCU or SFU. Other features like recording a much more reliable if they are implemented server side.