OpenTalk - Videoconferencing secure and GDPR compliant (Jitsi alternative, written in Rust) (opentalk.eu)

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 27 points 10 months ago

I really wish Jitsi had taken off during lockdowns. MS Teams I can understand, businesses all use Microsoft, but Zoom is just vile shite.

[-] clover@slrpnk.net 15 points 10 months ago

Jitsi has done a lot to improve functionality since lock down. Still pretty basic, but it's free and can do moderation.

[-] scott@lem.free.as 11 points 10 months ago

And it's self-hostable.

[-] chahk@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago

Looks like you can self-host OpenTalk too: https://gitlab.opencode.de/opentalk/ot-setup

[-] scott@lem.free.as 2 points 10 months ago

Very nice.

[-] d_k_bo@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] d4rko@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

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 :/

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

So true. I prefer BBB a lot though.

[-] DdCno1@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

Interesting. Yeah its very stable, supports tons of people in a room etc.

[-] gaael@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] 7EP6vuI@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago

What's wrong with jitsi tho?

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