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Jitsi, the open-source video conferencing platform, now requires a Google, Microsoft, or Facebook account for their online service (jitsi.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si, for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a "Know Your Customer" policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account.

One option to avoid this is to self-host, but then you'll be identifiable via your domain and have to maintain a server.

As a true alternative to Jitsi, there's jami.net. It is a decentralized conference app, free open-source, and account creation is optional. It's available for all major platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android), including on F-Droid.

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

It's hypocritical to call your service "privacy friendly" and then require the use of a Google/Facebook/GitHub account to log in. I kinda understand the reason why they do this, but they could have at least allowed you to use a more private email provider.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Calling them hypocritical is hysterical when they offer all the source code for free and you can host your own instance that doesn't need an account.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The software is free open source. But this case is not about the software. It's about the web instance that the majority of the people was using. And that instance now lost its privacy feature and shouldn't call itself privacy friendly anymore.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What information is transmitted to GitHub when you sign in with your GitHub account?

I'll tell you: that you signed into jitsi.

That's it.

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