Technology

Here are some interesting lists of alternative instances:

https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-instances/
https://ladatano.partidopirata.com.ar/jitsimeter/
https://timo-osterkamp.eu/random-redirect.html

By the way, by default jitsi is not end-to-end encrypted if you have more than two people in the call or need to use the videobrige for other reasons. https://jitsi.org/e2ee-in-jitsi/

Update: The e2ee implementation seems to have some issues as well: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1118

Firefox <116 is currently not able to use the e2e-encryption, blink based browser already support it. Firefox 117 will provide the necessary infrastructure as well. I don't know if jitsi would have ot be patched to detect the firefox implementation. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631263#c58

If its open-source, couldn't somebody just fork it and remove the login requirement?

Well, time to find another instance, cause fuck that noise

Well looks like jitsis gone.

How disappointing.

It was great for sharing private contact info with Google/Facebook/etc friends without revealing it to those invasive services. Instead of sharing your private address where it would be harvested, you could meet in an anonymous Jitsi room, exchange addresses there, and contact each other directly from then on.

Self-hosting doesn't solve that use case, unless perhaps you're willing to buy throw-away domains and IP addresses every time you do it.

You can also use matrix. Matrix currently uses jitsi. In the future it'll use "element call" but right now, jitsi.

lmao

RIP Jitsi ಠ_ಠ