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FSF gives freedom-respecting videoconferencing to all associate members

22 pointsby stargravealmost 5 years ago

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theandrewbaileyalmost 5 years ago
Jitsi Meet works really well. I set up an instance on my server for my church to use instead of Zoom. I needed to change the ports it uses, since I have another web server running (I'm pretty sure that's where I went wrong when I tried to set it up the first time). I also needed to disable it from directing mobile browsers to the app, instead of just going to the meeting in-browser.
christefanoalmost 5 years ago
&gt; The platform we use to offer ethical videoconferencing access is Jitsi Meet. We used it previously to stream and record our annual LibrePlanet conference for an online audience after the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to cancel the in-person event. Choosing Jitsi Meet is only the first step to addressing the problems posed to user freedom by services like Zoom and Facebook. Even users that start a call via a server running Jitsi could still be vulnerable if that server depends on or shares information with third parties. The FSF made changes to the code we are running, in order to enhance privacy and software freedom, and published the source code, to motivate others to host their own instances. The FSF instance does not use any third party servers for network initialization, and does not recommend or link to any potentially problematic services.<p>Curious what code changes the FSF made to their copy of Jitsi Meet. Is anyone able to report on this?
MaxBarracloughalmost 5 years ago
Good move, FSF. Do they have other similar offerings? A chat service, say?
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