Jitsi Meet

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Jitsi Meet is a free open-source self-hostable video conferencing solution that was occasionally used for virtual HWCs and IWCs.

Features

It supports essentially unlimited rooms by postfixing a room name to the end of the url similar to Google Hangouts. For example, using the Jitsi Meet service you can enter: https://meet.jit.si/{room name}
Uses WebRTC, but *not* P2P for >2 participants - decreased bandwidth requirements for clients, less issues with P2P discovery
Supports audio-only mode for guests as well as push-to-talk mode.
Supports streaming to YouTube Live
Has clients on: Web, iOS, Android, as well as desktop Electron apps.
Connect to a shared Etherpad document among everyone in the conference
Screen-sharing
No accounts needed
Open-Source

occasional reliability issues (dropped connections not being cleaned up)
problems with Firefox, other browsers work better. Currently (2020-05) waiting on improvements to Firefox by Mozilla, see https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758
Jamie Tanna, as an organiser of https://phpminds.org, ran through Jitsi from April->September, but due to continued stability issues of the platform, and issues with non-Chrome browsers (even after the above improvements were released) we moved to Zoom, due to our license being provided through sponsorship

remote participation
Note primary meet.jitsi instance is run by a publicly traded corporation: https://social.wedistribute.org/notice/AevHMWzWWSQTAj5hmC
^ original permalink https://social.coop/@J12t/111938286436347674
- "The hosted Jitsi service that many people in the Fediverse appear to prefer over, say, Zoom is operated by 8x8, a NASDAQ-traded public company.I wonder how this makes Jitsi somehow more acceptable to the Fediverse than Zoom. Yes, I understand that Jitsi has an open-source implementation, but if you use a commercially-operated freemium service like https://meet.jit.si that appears to make very little difference re privacy etc.What am I missing?#Zoom #Jitsi #Fediverse" @J12t February 16, 2024