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  • BarHocker@discuss.tchncs.de
    151·
    2 days ago

    As long as you keep it fair, as in not many users, not too many streams etc, https://fairmeeting.net/ offers videocalling for free. I think it is using Jitsi.

    They also offer paid versions that you can use should you require more than a few users.

      • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        Originally from France. Current owner is 8x8, American company, but the software itself is open source. So yes and no, maybe?

        • snuggledick@lemm.ee
          2·
          2 days ago

          But since the software is open source you can just take it and host it yourself, so no American company involved anymore.

          • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Sure. But the American company is currently managing development, have their own money on the table to improve the code and so on. Depends on how pedantic you want to go on this.

            Even Torvalds himself, while originating from Finland, is currently a USA citizen and Linux foundation is paying his salary. With FOSS the borders are a bit different than in the real world and if you want to really be strict about it, fully European operating system just does not exist, at least not viable and well supported one.

            Personally I’ll keep using whatever free software there is, regardless of the country of origin.

            • snuggledick@lemm.ee
              4·
              1 day ago

              Yeah, for me the main point is not to help US companies make money, either by paying them directly or by giving them my data which they can can sell. With open source software that’s covered most of the time, especially when self-hosted.

  • Hnery@feddit.org
    41·
    1 day ago

    More of a videoconferencing software, but BigBlueButton is open source, so it doesn’t belong anywhere. The foundation (company) sits in Canada. YMMV with BBB, though. Many, many students learned hating that thing for various reasons.

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    • lazycog@feddit.ukM
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Any experiences here with video calls via matrix? Never tried as I try to keep myself somewhat private here and mostly use matrix for fediverse stuff.

      • mlflexer@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        I tired it once with my buddy and it seemed to work fine on the element client. Not sure if this was placebo, but it felt like the unencrypted video call had better quality, however it wasn’t very noticeable. Though it might be a bigger problem with many people in the call, haven’t tested it though

        • lazycog@feddit.ukM
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Thanks! Kinda also assumed it would be better unecrypted. Guess I need to give it a try at some point.

    • matlag@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      2 days ago

      Matrix or XMPP and just pick a European server. Since we talk about getting local, let’s also de-enshitify the Internet and adopt open standards!

  • choutos@lemmy.world
    91·
    2 days ago

    Skype is being discontinued in May. Does it solve the replacement problem? 🤔