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Ask HN: Secure Zoom Alternative

17 points by xupybd ↗ HN
What is everyone using instead of zoom given the security concerns?

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maxbaines
Jitsi and 8x8

https://meet.jit.si/

xupybd
That looks great but is the room access security the obscurity of the room name?
maxbaines
You can set a password for the room in the bottom left panel.
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nikolay
Jitsi Meet is a clone of Google Meet; Zoom is a different product. Although Jitsi borrows some features, it lacks strict control. When working with young students, you understand why there needs to be stricter control on who can talk, who can present, raise hands, run polls, etc.
collyw
Jitsi is good but it makes CPUs run hot.
nikolay
Jitsi and Google Meet both use WebRTC. Although it sounds like a great technology, it's really CPU taxing and not inclusive as some of our students didn't have high-end hardware and connection, and we just couldn't run our school on Jitsi/Google Meet. However, Zoom in the browser is equally bad, so, it's subpar on Chromebooks.
2rsf
Skype for business (when it works, doesn't degrade to low quality or disconnect)
nikisweeting
WhereBy.com is great, it's pure p2p WebRTC for the smaller rooms, but >=12 ppl rooms use a bounce server that they host.
emptysongglass
p2p.chat does what it says on the tin. It worked a treat using Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04. No screensharing though!
emptysongglass
Replying to my own comment because the editing time has expired to also give a shout out to Nextcloud Talk.

Never mind that all of Nextcloud is already a huge groupware boon of FOSS goodness, the new Nextcloud 19 just dropped with big improvements to Talk like scalable video quality.