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

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And it's self-hostable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Very nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 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 :/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So true. I prefer BBB a lot though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

What's wrong with jitsi tho?