Post #3040244

2023-08-06 19:10 UTC

@jmsdnns@mastodon.social i see Jitsi mentioned here as an alternative. But it's free, which raises a red flag for me - I've seen other "free" services do a bait-and-switch to suddenly be "use our great AI for a fee" ... and you just know that AI was fed on our "free"-ly provided data 😕

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@mlippert@vmst.io 2023-08-06 19:33

@deborahh@mstdn.ca @jmsdnns@mastodon.social Jitsi is free in that it is an open source project, so you *can* host it yourself and control ALL the data. However that is not free, setting up cloud servers costs $, and there is time and effort involved in configuring it properly. I think the main org that funds jitsi dev will also set up and run it for you, but I don't know anything about that.

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@skry@mastodon.social 2023-08-06 19:51

@deborahh@mstdn.ca @jmsdnns@mastodon.social You’re right to be worried, given the advertising ecosystem that spawns so many “free” products where we are the product. But Jitsi is an open source, free alternative to commercial systems. Its whole reason to be is to provide encrypted, private, no-personal-data-required communication. Jitsi Meet is a trusted platform in the infosec community. No ads. https://jitsi.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi

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