Hi guys! So I’ve just discovered jitsi meet. My girlfriend might have a good use for this, as she’s tired of the time limit for the free tier of Zoom. Plus, the most recent concerns regarding AI training. So, back to jitsi… Besides the obvious concern of running on other people’s servers…is there any disadvantage to scheduling meetings over just by using https://meet.jit.si/? What are the advantages of self-hosting? Is there any extra feature I’d gain? Any limitation by using their online service?

Thanks!

  • Display Name@lemmy.mlEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    Jitsi is unencrypted. Jitsi may be unencrypted. Nothing wrong for personal use. You may want to use element call https://call.element.io/ * (edit: as soon as it is out of beta) or matrix

    Edit: what I wrote wasn’t right

    • dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizzaEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      That’s completely false. The connection between users and the server is encrypted with HTTPS and you can even turn on end to end encryption if you want. Jitsi doesn’t even work over unencrypted HTTP.

    • ch1cken@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Jitsi is unencrypted

      Not true, jitsi does have e2ee which you can enable in its settings, but it only works on chromium based browsers or their desktop app. Element call on the other hand has temporarily disabled the e2ee option.