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Just that I see additional friction, and friction in a business world is risk :/ (side-note, with Jitsi, it feels like I have a fireplace log in the hands when I use it) I think Samsung rejected non-\"Big Emails\", but pretty sure we can find exceptions both ways. Fun stuff I found while searching: > https://transportation.ucsc.edu/buses-shuttles/d", "context": "", "use_case": "video calls", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["video calls", "video meetings", "video conferencing", "group video calls", "voice and video messaging", "browser video calls"], "compared": [{"slug": "zoom", "name": "Zoom", "co": 3, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "galene", "name": "Galene", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "discord", "name": "Discord", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "google-meet", "name": "Google Meet", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "proton-meet", "name": "Proton Meet", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "livekit", "name": "LiveKit", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "obs", "name": "OBS", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675902", "title": "Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873294", "title": "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945663", "title": "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767668", "title": "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713704", "title": "I'll pass on your zoom call.", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070302", "title": "Firefox Enterprise", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 2, "compare": 1}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 3, "compare": 1, "warn": 1, "neutral": 10}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 801221457, "item_id": 50076341, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076341", "by": "worik", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "When I initiated a meeting I used Jitsi, no such troubles", "excerpt": "At my (old) work we used Google Meet for meetings I could not get audio on Firefox It was the only site I ever found where I could not get audio and I suspect some Google malfeasance When I initiated a meeting I used Jitsi, no such troubles", "context": "", "use_case": "video meetings", "switched_from": "Google Meet", "story": "Firefox Enterprise"}, {"id": 795152448, "item_id": 49697028, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697028", "by": "wasting_time", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think you can do this with Jitsi", "excerpt": "I think you can do this with Jitsi: https://jitsi.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "Group video calls", "switched_from": "", "story": "Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs"}, {"id": 794944240, "item_id": 49684015, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684015", "by": "ShinyLeftPad", "date": "2026-09-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "first time for everything", "excerpt": "https://meet.jit.si/humanphilosophersdisplaceround first time for everything", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard"}, {"id": 794860096, "item_id": 49678756, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678756", "by": "somat", "date": "2026-09-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "If we are doing a survey of self hosted video conferencing services I would like to propose galene. Very easy to set up, I run it on obsd(an unsupported platform) and it just works. https://galene.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard"}, {"id": 794858528, "item_id": 49678658, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678658", "by": "butterNaN", "date": "2026-09-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://jitsi.org/", "excerpt": "https://jitsi.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "video calls", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard"}, {"id": 794831712, "item_id": 49676982, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676982", "by": "Joel_Mckay", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Spinning up a conference host for a small office is fairly trivial", "excerpt": "Spinning up a conference host for a small office is fairly trivial =3 https://jitsi.org/downloads/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard"}, {"id": 775494434, "item_id": 48468402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468402", "by": "dredmorbius", "date": "2026-06-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Whatsapp, Signal, Jitsi, or similar voice- or video-messaging systems.", "excerpt": "WiFi / pure-VOIP based calling should be able to disambiguate between the network and the messaging layers. This means that a given cellular modem wouldn't be traceable to a specific contact, or call history. The modems could be swapped amongst individuals readily. This is similar to the situation that already exists for PSTN voice comms currently: Whatsapp, Signal, Jitsi, or similar voice- or video-messaging systems", "context": "", "use_case": "Voice and video messaging", "switched_from": "", "story": "FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers' IDs"}, {"id": 770473314, "item_id": 48154582, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154582", "by": "andreashaerter", "date": "2026-05-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Jitsi/OpenCloud/BBB", "excerpt": "> What we need in the small business space is a tier of services where small businesses can self host using their own on-premise, vertically scalable infrastructure (ie: 1 server). In most cases they can tolerate some downtime and, even if they don't want to, a lack of resources usually means they don't have a choice (ex: they're not running HA network connections). I think the same: Small service businesses care mos", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"}, {"id": 753119522, "item_id": 47069970, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069970", "by": "xethos", "date": "2026-02-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "You might be using old clients that are recommended against, as (AIUI) Jitsi stopped being the default with Matrix 2.0 (released ~late 2024 [0]). Is it totally fair to blame users? Not entirely, as some features are still being pushed into ElementX. But it's a known problem, with a known solution (finish ElementX and/or wait for other clients to catch up), and a weakness of an open ecosystem. Moxie wasn't wrong when ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "In Search of a Discord Replacement"}, {"id": 752239825, "item_id": 47014989, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014989", "by": "toastal", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "if you set up a Jitsi server for calls & such", "excerpt": "Almost all clients support file sharing. The Movim client <https://mov.im/> supports screen sharing. It should be noted that both Jitsi & Zoom use XMPP for the roster/chat/handshaking as well; so if you set up a Jitsi server for calls & such, you would already have a working XMPP server on your server that could be co-opted.", "context": "", "use_case": "video calls", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach"}, {"id": 751946931, "item_id": 46996683, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996683", "by": "movedx", "date": "2026-02-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "using Zoom or something else like Jitsi on the side", "excerpt": "I\u2019m going to do a video on this soon, but I was able to get Ergo IRCd and TheLounge up and running pretty quickly; https://chat.crilly.au/ I\u2019ll be building a new platform on these two technologies and using Zoom or something else like Jitsi on the side for video/audio sharing. It\u2019s time accept the loss of \u201cfeatures\u201d and go back to something simpler but also something that can still be here in 38 years \u2014 like IRC has ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord Just Killed Anonymity"}, {"id": 751920145, "item_id": 46995009, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995009", "by": "Conan_Kudo", "date": "2026-02-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It was the reason why the openSUSE Project deployed a Jitsi instance.", "excerpt": "SUSE used Teams for years (particularly under Melissa Di Donato, who made everyone use it). I used to participate in some of the community project meetings that wound up being on Teams because it was the approved solution they could use. It was the reason why the openSUSE Project deployed a Jitsi instance. They do not use Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Teams anymore. They use Google Workspace just like everyone else now ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood\u2013 they pay for proprietary groupware"}, {"id": 751705377, "item_id": 46981586, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981586", "by": "Jomari", "date": "2026-02-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "a Playwright-driven Jitsi \u201cbrowser bot\u201d", "excerpt": "I\u2019m building an AI co-host stack for Podium Outpost live audio rooms. Each agent joins as a real participant. It listens to room audio, transcribes (ASR), generates a reply (LLM), and speaks back into the room (TTS). The issue isn't the talking, but real-time coordination and latency. In a multi-agent room, I have noticed overlapping speech breaks the experience immediately. So I built a separate Turn Coordinator ser", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Podium Voices: multi-agent AI hosts for live audio rooms (turn coordination)"}, {"id": 751475168, "item_id": 46967198, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967198", "by": "crabmusket", "date": "2026-02-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Sure, but I think this article makes a good point: there's a demographic that uses voice chat as more of a space, not an event: https://sporks.space/2026/02/10/a-few-design-decisions-for-a-new-chat-platform/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zulip.com Values"}, {"id": 751474002, "item_id": 46967125, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967125", "by": "tourmalinetaco", "date": "2026-02-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "or a more reliable dedicated Jitsi link", "excerpt": "I use MiroTalk for it. Within Element you can set up widgets (basically PWAs) and so you can call via Element\u2019s built in Jitsi widget (or a more reliable dedicated Jitsi link) and then use MiroTalk to share screens. It is a LOT better, especially for streaming video. In terms of ease of use, it\u2019s like three clicks. Technically more than Discord, but it\u2019s p2p streaming so it\u2019s far nicer quality.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"}, {"id": 751355317, "item_id": 46959707, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959707", "by": "opan", "date": "2026-02-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I showed him Jitsi to placate him", "excerpt": "This may be a good time to consider whether one program should really be handling all those things, or if it's putting too many eggs in one basket and asking too much of any one program. Discord seems comparable to a Chinese superapp, made to trap its users and become an irreplaceable part of their everyday lives. I think I understand it's hard to give up some of these features once you're used to them, but it seems ", "context": "", "use_case": "Browser video calls", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"}, {"id": 751285248, "item_id": 46955328, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955328", "by": "veyh", "date": "2026-02-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "even if Jitsi doesn't have Push-to-Talk", "excerpt": "Well, even if Jitsi doesn't have Push-to-Talk, you can still easily get it by using a hotkey to mute/unmute the mic system-wide. For exampple, if you're on PC, MicMute [1] can be used for free, or if you want more customization, I would humbly present my side project, AutoPTT [2]. [1] https://github.com/SaifAqqad/AHK_MicMute/ [2] https://autoptt.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"}, {"id": 751183649, "item_id": 46948978, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948978", "by": "foresto", "date": "2026-02-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "For now, I think they do it through their Jitsi integration.", "excerpt": "Matrix screen sharing is a feature of of Element Call / MatrixRTC (in development). For now, I think they do it through their Jitsi integration. I don't know how easy it is, as I haven't tried it. https://docs.element.io/latest/element-cloud-documentation/integrations/create-a-conference-call-in-a-room/#screen-sharing", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"}, {"id": 751157072, "item_id": 46947317, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947317", "by": "crtasm", "date": "2026-02-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use Jitsi for voice/video calls + screen sharing", "excerpt": "We use Jitsi for voice/video calls + screen sharing (but I realise you may be talking about all-in-one alternatives)", "context": "", "use_case": "Voice/video calls, screen sharing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally"}, {"id": 750123729, "item_id": 46882733, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882733", "by": "internet_points", "date": "2026-02-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The chat seems extremely basic, so not really an alternative", "excerpt": "what are the minimal server requirements? jitsi says prefer 8G ram (4G for small meetings) and 4 dedicated cpu cores https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-guide-requirements/ The chat seems extremely basic, so not really an alternative if you need chat with e.g. message edit/delete/formatting/pictures as well as video/audio.", "context": "", "use_case": "Video conferencing", "switched_from": "", "story": "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"}, {"id": 750047680, "item_id": 46877980, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877980", "by": "teekert", "date": "2026-02-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "https://meet.proton.me should also be ready for action soon.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"}, {"id": 749993089, "item_id": 46874568, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874568", "by": "kofu", "date": "2026-02-03", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I prefer it over Jitsi", "excerpt": "This one is often overlook but very good, I prefer it over Jitsi https://galene.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"}, {"id": 749987392, "item_id": 46874212, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874212", "by": "MengerSponge", "date": "2026-02-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Jitsi? https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet", "excerpt": "Jitsi? https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet", "context": "", "use_case": "Video meetings", "switched_from": "", "story": "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"}, {"id": 748465761, "item_id": 46779110, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779110", "by": "Signez", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "compare", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Nah, it's just a basic case of a pivot from a company that previously offered a great open source (MIT licensed) product written in Go that offer WebRTC-based backbone to build audio and video sharing products upon: https://github.com/livekit/livekit The AI stuff that the original LiveKit company put on top of it (to pivot to more investor-friendly endeavours) is not that relevant in this case, in my humble opinion.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."}, {"id": 748299826, "item_id": 46768739, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768739", "by": "mcoliver", "date": "2026-01-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "opendesk with jitsi would be my guess", "excerpt": "Visio with live kit (part of lasuite) or opendesk with jitsi would be my guess. https://livekit.io/ https://www.clever.cloud/product/visio/ https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/ https://jitsi.org/ https://www.opendesk.eu/en As an aside I am surprised it has taken this long but seems inevitable now given the last 18 months.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."}, {"id": 748287152, "item_id": 46767947, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767947", "by": "trelane", "date": "2026-01-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Even something already available off the shelf! https://www.fsf.org/blogs/membership/jitsi-meet-an-often-overlooked-member-benefit", "excerpt": "Even something already available off the shelf! https://www.fsf.org/blogs/membership/jitsi-meet-an-often-overlooked-member-benefit", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."}, {"id": 748264322, "item_id": 46766520, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766520", "by": "manuhabitela", "date": "2026-01-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used big blue button and jitsi a lot in the past", "excerpt": "I used big blue button and jitsi a lot in the past and this is a really good contender. Using Meet basically every day at work and it's really great. And the project gets new useful features regularly. (I'm obviously a tiny bit biased since a made a few commits to the project a while ago, but pinky promise, you should try it!)", "context": "", "use_case": "video conferencing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Major roll out of LaSuite Meet in the French administration"}, {"id": 747448528, "item_id": 46715533, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715533", "by": "aorth", "date": "2026-01-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It comes from \u0436\u0438\u0446\u0438 in Bulgarian, which means \"wires\".", "excerpt": "It comes from \u0436\u0438\u0446\u0438 in Bulgarian, which means \"wires\". I think the author should remove that part of the blog post because it detracts from the author's point and is even a bit embarrassing. A reference for the name: https://desktop.jitsi.org/Documentation/FAQ.html#spelling", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I'll pass on your zoom call."}, {"id": 747436817, "item_id": 46714801, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46714801", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-01-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "my jitsi goto server for any quick drawing board sessions or screensharing/video calling zoom alternative", "excerpt": "I really love use fairmeeting.net as my jitsi goto server for any quick drawing board sessions or screensharing/video calling zoom alternative. I have used it for more over than 1 year/6 months with my friend where we both used and we used to very consistently think of how this service is free and how great it is etc. Thanks to fairmeeting.net ngl! One of the best services period. I wanted something in browser withou", "context": "", "use_case": "self-hosted video calls", "switched_from": "", "story": "I'll pass on your zoom call."}, {"id": 744433378, "item_id": 46527086, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527086", "by": "weitendorf", "date": "2026-01-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "or https://meet.jit.si/", "excerpt": "Except for maybe an \"Excel killer\", all those things you listed are not things people are willing to pay for. Also agents are bad at that kind of work (most devs are bad at that stuff, it's why it was something people whined about even before agents). And funnily enough there are products and tools that are essentially less bloated slack/discord. Have you heard of https://stoat.chat/ (aka revolt) or https://pumble.co", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Opus 4.5 is going to change everything"}, {"id": 740121072, "item_id": 46257567, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257567", "by": "rvnx", "date": "2025-12-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "with Jitsi, it feels like I have a fireplace log in the hands when I use it", "excerpt": "I agree with you, and I think your reasoning is totally understandable. Just that I see additional friction, and friction in a business world is risk :/ (side-note, with Jitsi, it feels like I have a fireplace log in the hands when I use it) I think Samsung rejected non-\"Big Emails\", but pretty sure we can find exceptions both ways. Fun stuff I found while searching: > https://transportation.ucsc.edu/buses-shuttles/d", "context": "", "use_case": "video calls", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"}, {"id": 738681681, "item_id": 46167605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167605", "by": "XCSme", "date": "2025-12-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I suggested self-hosting http://jitsi.org", "excerpt": "Today a client is having some issue with Zoom because of some artificial rate limits they impose. Their support is not responding, the account can't be used, courses can not be held and there's not much we can do. We already started looking into moving away from Zoom, I suggested self-hosting http://jitsi.org Based on their docs, self-hosting is well supported, and probably a $50-$100 server is more than enough, so a", "context": "", "use_case": "Self-hosted video meetings", "switched_from": "Zoom", "story": "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"}]}