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Jitsi, the open-source video conferencing platform, now requires a Google, Microsoft, or Facebook account for their online service. - Beehaw (beehaw.org)

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While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si [http://meet.jit.si], for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a “Know Your Customer” policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account. If you prefer not to self-host Jitsi and be identifiable via your domain, there’s jami.net [http://jami.net] as a replacement for Jitsi. It is a decentralized conference app that requires you to install an app. However, it’s open-source and account creation is optional. It’s available for all major platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android), including on F-Droid.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember the good old times where OpenID / OAuth were starting to become the norm, and you could log in with StatusNet? Well why can't Jitsi do the same with my Mastodon account?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What did happen with OpenID, anyway? I remember it being big when Livejournal was a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

the biggest problem, ironically, was how flexible it was.
users were forgetting WHICH provider they signed up to a service with, causing a support nightmare and multiple accounts

then there was the issue that all the big players didn't accept external auth - so google, etc.. require their own accounts.