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CEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoom (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

FYI Jitsi Meet is an open source video conferencing app. It works similarly to Zoom, and is free. One can even host an instance on one's own system.

"About Jitsi: Video Conferencing Software. Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting."

https://jitsi.org/

https://meet.jit.si/

Personal Note: In 2020 I took my classed online, having chosen to use Zoom, tho' Jitsi was on the list. Last September when Zoom changed their terms of service to include using our videos to train AI, I decided to switch to Jitsi. My operation is pretty small, and the $160/year I spent on Zoom was an expense I no longer needed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I'm a fan of jitsi. That said, like a lot of open source I think it lags in features and bug fixes. Joining from Linux I have a lot of issues with my webcam not being recognized or my audio being very low for other participants, while I don't have those issues with the remedial Linux version of their app that Zoom put out.

I still use jitsi, I just don't feel I can rely on it for mission critical applications, unlike say, VLC.