What are the best zoom alternatives? - eviltoast

After this announcement, I am planning to reject meetings organised in zoom. But the problem is that it’s really good. So, is there any privacy friendly and viable alternatives to zoom? It does not have to be open source because I nearly tried all alternatives. Your experiences?

  • Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’ve found Jitsi to be a great replacement. The only shortfall I found is that most folk don’t know about it and can be resistent to trying it.

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      I tried it on the browser on my own and it seemed to work okay at first glance. I haven’t tried the app due to the 3.8-star rating on Google Play that is actually closer to a 3-star rating when you account for the fact that half of the 5-star ratings look fake. Main complaints seemed to be sound and video quality and getting disconnected. The fact that anybody can just come into your session if they guess the room name correctly isn’t optimal either. Overall it feels janky, or maybe I am spoiled. I could be spoiled.

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        The fact that anybody can just come into your session if they guess the room name correctly isn’t optimal either.

        If you ignore the warnings about an easily-guessable name, ignore the option to use a waiting room, and ignore the suggestions to use a password, yeah.

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        You can set the session in lobby mode wheresomeone has to be accepted or you can require a password to join. Its not a bad app, or at least the version from fdroid.