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@neil
I moved our weekly virtual drinks party from Skype to Jitsi a few weeks ago, after Microsoft fumbled the transition from Skype to #Teams and one of us couldn't join. I'm really impressed by the way Jitsi has come on since I last tried it in 2020: not only is the connection clear and stable, but #Jitsi makes better use of our inadequate bandwidth than #Skype ever did.

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I know that I've said it many times before, but I'm just blown away by how much amazing Free/open source software people and companies are making, and just how good it can be.

Not just for hobbyists / tinkering (although those are absolutely valid use cases), but for Actually Getting Stuff Done.

Top 7 best open source skype alternatives

itsfoss.com/open-source-skype-

Not only there's Jitsi and Element (but no mentions of the futuristic Element Call yet), but many other open-source alternatives I wasn't aware of. Nice list!

It's FOSS · Top 7 Best Open Source Skype Alternatives In 2025With Skype going down, a switch to open source alternatives has never been more compelling.
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Großes Lob & Dank an @ossrox für ihre tollen Open Source Services, die noch besser ermöglichen einfach von den amerikanischen Unternehmen wegzukommen.

Ich hoffe immer mehr Menschen, Organisationen, Vereine und Unternehmen nutzen diese Möglichkeiten und kommen aus ihrer großen Komfortzone, um die Verbreitung europäischer Dienste zu fördern.

🇪🇺 :goon:

Zum Thema Unabhängigkeit von amerikanischen Diensten zeige ich auf welche ich stattdessen nutze.
Viele schon seit etlichen Jahren. Möglichst nachhaltig und Open Source.

Mobilfunk: WEtell :wetell:
Cloud: Nextcloud :nextcloud:
Social Media: Mastodon :joinmasto:
Konferenz: Jitsi :ossrox:
Office: LibreSoftware/Collabora: :ossrox:
Messenger: Matrix :matrixm: & Threema :threema:
Bank: tomorrow 🏦

Working through the suggested alternatives to Zoom, starting with #Jitsi - but it appears to want me to login using Facebook (hahahahaha), Google (hahahahahahahahahahaha) or GitHub. Now, the latter I can do. But I've heard rumblings about that site too.

Why would anyone offering an alternative to Zoom suggest these as the only login methods?

I've been using jitsi.meet as a free non-USA alternative to Zoom, googlemeet, and the truly dire Teams.
It works, noise suppression isn't great and as a host you have to login via a corporate login service like Google or Github (I'm an old git and use that as least worse). But certainly a viable alternative.
#jitsi

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@topio hach ja: "da *niemand* #Jitsi¹, #Jami² oder/und #BigBlueButton³ nutzt ist es ja nicht praktisch anzuwenden!1!!"

bekomme ich immer wieder mitgeteilt und muss dann aber eine schweigepflicht unterschreiben, dass ich nichts aus dem #chat & co verrate – ein mal mit menschen bitte und nicht immer die kommerz-konsum-bots die noch stolz darauf sind und sich #profis nennen 🙄

1) jitsi.org
2) jami.net / @Jami
3) bigbluebutton.org

JitsiFree Video Conferencing Software for Web & Mobile | JitsiLearn more about Jitsi, a free open-source video conferencing software for web & mobile. Make a call, launch on your own servers, integrate into your app, and more.

Festival Latino-americano de Instalação de Software Livre – FLISoL 2025 acontece no dia 26 de Abril

América Latina, sábado, 26 de abril às 09:00 BRT

O Festival Latino-americano de Instalação de Software Livre (FLISoL) é o maior evento da América Latina de divulgação de Software Livre. Ele é realizado desde o ano de 2005, e desde 2008 sua realização acontece no 4°. sábado de abril de cada ano.Seu principal objetivo é promover o uso de Software Livre, mostrando ao público em geral sua filosofia, abrangência, avanços e desenvolvimento.Para alcançar estes objetivos, diversas comunidades locais de Software Livre (em cada país/cidade/localidade), organizam simultaneamente eventos em que se instala, de maneira gratuita e totalmente legal, Software Livre nos computadores dos participantes. Além disso, paralelamente acontecem palestras, apresentações e oficinas, sobre temas locais, nacionais e latino-americanos sobre Software Livre, em toda a sua expressão: artística, acadêmica, empresarial e social.O FLISOL Brasil 2025 acontece no dia 26 de Abril em diversas cidades, verifique o horário da sua cidade na listagem abaixo!https://flisol.info/FLISOL2025/Brasil

eventos.softwarelivre.tec.br/e

From @fsf on the "Blue Bird"

With an associate membership, you can start a #Jitsi room and invite whoever you please, whether or not they have an #FSF account. You're not handing over your credentials to #Apple or #Google by proxy. Unlike the flagship server, ours does not require a third-party login. It does not use nonfree #JavaScript, and it does not recommend nonfree software or #browser #extensions. fsf.org/associate/about-the-fs
#joinfsf

www.fsf.orgAbout the FSF Jitsi Meet server — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software

I am not a happy camper.

Jitsi-meet (a chat server) had an upgrade today. It broke this thing called jitsi-meet.

It edited the config file for my domain at 9:20 this morning, which was when I ran apt upgrade, and screwed it up.

Arr, matey. Whar's the backup?

It's also looking for files whar they ain't. Arr. That's a known bug that happened with old versions in 2021, and was tagged "wontfix."

Maybe the domain config errors triggered the later ones. That would be nice. Otherwise, I'm chasing old ghosts, which is never fun, and makes me wonder about their release process.

There have been many upgrades. This is the first breakage like it for me.

Grr. Grumble. Gripe.

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@laidibenhaddou
oui
plusieurs fois, par mail à la #LDHRennes, sans succès, et le plus souvent , sans retour aux mails,

la #LDH nationnale s'est déjà pourvue en #BBB et n'utilise plus #zoom depuis un bon moment,

c'est bien ça le plus triste et agaçant: ils ont été alertés, et il y a eu plus d'un article sur les fuites de zoom depuis 2019 où il est vrai, les alternatives étaient bien moins connues (il n'y a pas que Big Blue Button, il y a #jitsi qui marche très bien également, par exemple)

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@pa3weg @bert_hubert@fosstodon.org
@bert_hubert@mastodon.nl

En inderdaad, wij verkopen "hout" (hosting), maar we verkopen ook complete oplossingen "meubels".

We leveren bijvoorbeeld #nextcloud met nextcloud #office en #e-mail (volledig verzorgd) en #peertube als service en #mastodon als service en wat dacht je van #jitsi en #bigbluebutton ook als service.

Het is zelfs zo dat Bert daar zelf gebruik van maakt, de mastodon.nl server is qua eigennaarschap van de stichting ActivityPub, maar draait met en door ProcoliX.