Jitsi requires you to authenticate Facebook, Google, or GitHub anymore. It’s only needed for moderator.
Earlier this year we saw an increase in the number of reports we received about some people using our service in ways that we cannot tolerate. To be more clear, this was not about some people merely saying things that others disliked.
Edit: Typo
I was looking for alternative instances which do not require an account.
You can use Brave talk for free up to 4 people.
During my research, I run across Framasoft, a non profit French organization. They offer framatalk, an instance of Jitsi.
For all other instances, you can visit https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-instances/
Jami came to mind for me as an option with no account required. It was removed from Privacy Guides some time ago. Though I don’t believe its since had an audit I’ll still probably use it for my use case.
This is really difficult for Skiff Calendar. Not sure what we will do now.
So I just used it today and noticed that on the main page, just under the room name field and blue “Start meeting” button there is the sentence “Or [book a meeting URL] in advance where you are the only moderator.”
Which links you to https://moderated.jitsi.net/ that as far as I can tell doesn’t require making any account (since I do not have one). It’s an extra step and somewhat hidden but no other difference that I can see.
@anon86237473 I do not get this option. I get a “join meeting” option, but nothing further. Are you sure your not signed in? Any screenshot by chance?
This is what it looks like to me on Mull (if the screenshot is displaying correctly). But I see now that Vanadium does not show it in mobile view, only desktop. So maybe that’s a Chromium issue if you’re on mobile.
That link brings me to this page which I click and get a url for a room to use just like before.
And as I said, I have not made an account so not sure how I would be logged in?
It requires a moderator for starting the meeting. In order to be a moderator you have to create an account.
You mean they create an account automatically without any username or password?
@amilich - Is Skiff considering hosting an instance as a paid feature?
Just wanted to say that I run this project, The Internet Phone Booth:
https://theinternetphonebooth.com/
as a free offering from my company, Birdcalls. We aren’t audited yet because we’re too poor, but we’re a Jitsi fork that still allows fully anonymous calling.
Feel free to ping me with questions, comments or feature requests.
Debian hosts an instance, on the rare occasion that i need jitsi, i usually use that:
Yeah, that’s true, the auth is only needed for moderators.
We’ve been using Jitsi Meet as well, together with MiroTalk SFU. One thing we like about MiroTalk SFU is that it doesn’t require any login or account at all, which keeps things simple for users.
It’s one thing to require an account. It’s another to have to log in through another service.
Why don’t they support email?
In our private instance, we use mirotalk with OIDC, which can be enabled if needed and is fully supported depending on how the instance is configured.
My guess is that email is prone to the abuse they’re trying to avoid unless they limited it to a select few (mostly privacy-invasive) services, so instead they offloaded it to Google and GitHub which have their own anti-abuse mechanisms. I agree they should still accept certain email providers but they’d probably have to block a lot of domains privacy-conscious people use such as email aliases and the free proton.me domain.
any idea why they removed this instances page?
GitHub commit and comment:
ohh fair enough. Thank you
