I really wish Jitsi had taken off during lockdowns. MS Teams I can understand, businesses all use Microsoft, but Zoom is just vile shite.
Jitsi has done a lot to improve functionality since lock down. Still pretty basic, but it’s free and can do moderation.
And it’s self-hostable.
Looks like you can self-host OpenTalk too: https://gitlab.opencode.de/opentalk/ot-setup
Very nice.
Although it has always been a pain. Back when I used Nextcloud, I tried Nextcloud Talk which always had less problems for me and was much easier to set up.
I love Jitsi, I use it a lot at work but lately some attendants have problems to connect from other parts of the world and we end up going to Teams :/
So true. I prefer BBB a lot though.
BBB (Big Blue Button, for those unfamiliar) seems to be the favorite of lots of institutions in Germany. I think a government agency recommended its use, that’s why it’s so widespread.
Interesting. Yeah its very stable, supports tons of people in a room etc.
So do I. During lockdown a french hosting company set up bbb instances on their infrastructure, and the experience was really good (they even activated the “join with your phone” feature).
Zoom and Gmeet are usable (usually calls are stable and quality is ok) but closed-source shit, and I had a lot of stability issues on public jitsi instances (though I never self-hosted).I’ve tried opentalk for the first time a few weeks ago (it’s included in my email provider plan) and it worked fine.
It did, didn’t it? It became so popular that meet.jit.si had to shutdown. Fortunately theres tons of free ones run by other orgs.
they use https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway as the webrtc backend, at least according to https://opentalk.eu/en/open-source-code-und-community. so the rust part is probably just for chat and signaling.
What’s wrong with jitsi tho?
