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This is rough for Jitsi / 8x8. Requiring a login puts them at a level of "why not just use Google Meet?" to me unless you go through hoops to self host. I'm do

This is rough for Jitsi / 8x8. Requiring a login puts them at a level of "why not just use Google Meet?" to me unless you go through hoops to self host. I'm down to experiment with self hosting, I just feel that most users out there won't be and it'll ding their user count. It might be for the best if it squashes the malpractice they are seeing.

cryptonector 3y ago
> Requiring a login puts them at a level of "why not just use Google Meet?" to me [...] Because... it's not Google? For some people that may be a plus.
- jraph 3y ago
  But they are requiring a Google, a Microsoft or a Facebook account, so it is Google (or BigCorp which also has its video conference systems). I'm not judging, but on my side it's hard to justify using meet.jit.si anymore.
  - gwd 3y ago
    Playing around with it briefly, it looks like the login is only required to create the room. Our project uses Jitsi for a lot of official meetings, primarily because it's open-source. If it required everyone to log in, that would be more of an issue for us; but as long as the people running the meetings don't mind authenticating with Google, I don't think it will be a problem.
  - kevincox 3y ago
    Yeah, I would be much happier if I could create a separate account not linked to any BigCorp. Just let me pick a username and password. But I guess they are trying to defer some sort of account creation human verification/rate limiting to those companies.
  - cryptonector 3y ago
    Sure, that means those companies could impersonate users to jit.si, but that would be quite something, so I suspect they wouldn't -- at least for now. So you might trust jit.si with your meetings even though you might not trust Google with your meetings even if you trust Google for authenticating you to jit.si.
    - jraph 3y ago
      This also means you have to agree to their ToS
      - cryptonector 3y ago
        Now that's a good point.
greenpresident 3y ago
There are a number of instances hosted by others, see for example: https://pads.ccc.de/jitsiliste https://pads.ccc.de/jitsiliste
- El_RIDO 3y ago
  See also the list in the official docs: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-instances/ https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-in...
wouldbecouldbe 3y ago
Is there possibility to turn it off in self hosting? I hosted my own instance once via digital ocean; they have a preconfigured vps droplet that works pretty much instanously
voiper1 3y ago
Only the creator needs to have an account, not all users. If you like jitsi or don't want google, etc, then just start it and nobody else needs an account.

cryptonector 3y ago

> Requiring a login puts them at a level of "why not just use Google Meet?" to me [...] Because... it's not Google? For some people that may be a plus.

jraph 3y ago
But they are requiring a Google, a Microsoft or a Facebook account, so it is Google (or BigCorp which also has its video conference systems). I'm not judging, but on my side it's hard to justify using meet.jit.si anymore.
- gwd 3y ago
  Playing around with it briefly, it looks like the login is only required to create the room. Our project uses Jitsi for a lot of official meetings, primarily because it's open-source. If it required everyone to log in, that would be more of an issue for us; but as long as the people running the meetings don't mind authenticating with Google, I don't think it will be a problem.
- kevincox 3y ago
  Yeah, I would be much happier if I could create a separate account not linked to any BigCorp. Just let me pick a username and password. But I guess they are trying to defer some sort of account creation human verification/rate limiting to those companies.
- cryptonector 3y ago
  Sure, that means those companies could impersonate users to jit.si, but that would be quite something, so I suspect they wouldn't -- at least for now. So you might trust jit.si with your meetings even though you might not trust Google with your meetings even if you trust Google for authenticating you to jit.si.
  - jraph 3y ago
    This also means you have to agree to their ToS
    - cryptonector 3y ago
      Now that's a good point.

greenpresident 3y ago

There are a number of instances hosted by others, see for example: https://pads.ccc.de/jitsiliste https://pads.ccc.de/jitsiliste

El_RIDO 3y ago
See also the list in the official docs: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-instances/ https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-in...

wouldbecouldbe 3y ago

Is there possibility to turn it off in self hosting? I hosted my own instance once via digital ocean; they have a preconfigured vps droplet that works pretty much instanously

voiper1 3y ago

Only the creator needs to have an account, not all users. If you like jitsi or don't want google, etc, then just start it and nobody else needs an account.