Jitsi
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
13recommend
2warn against
Dec 5, 2025first mention
Oct 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“When I initiated a meeting I used Jitsi, no such troubles”
switched from Google Meeton “Firefox Enterprise”
“I think you can do this with Jitsi”
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“https://jitsi.org/”
“Spinning up a conference host for a small office is fairly trivial”
“We use Jitsi for voice/video calls + screen sharing”
Caveats and dissent
“The chat seems extremely basic, so not really an alternative”
“with Jitsi, it feels like I have a fireplace log in the hands when I use it”
Often compared with
1 moved from Zoom to JitsiGalene3 comments mention both
1 moved from Google Meet to Jitsi
1 moved from Jitsi to Proton Meet
Threads where it came up
- Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard 4 mentions
- France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US 4 mentions
- Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 3 mentions
- France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc. 3 mentions
- I'll pass on your zoom call. 2 mentions
- Firefox Enterprise 1 mention
Also written as Jitsi Meet. Data: jitsi.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 32
“When I initiated a meeting I used Jitsi, no such troubles”
“I think you can do this with Jitsi”
“first time for everything”
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/
“https://jitsi.org/”
“Spinning up a conference host for a small office is fairly trivial”
“Whatsapp, Signal, Jitsi, or similar voice- or video-messaging systems.”
“Jitsi/OpenCloud/BBB”
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
“if you set up a Jitsi server for calls & such”
“using Zoom or something else like Jitsi on the side”
“It was the reason why the openSUSE Project deployed a Jitsi instance.”
“a Playwright-driven Jitsi “browser bot””
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/
“or a more reliable dedicated Jitsi link”
“I showed him Jitsi to placate him”
“even if Jitsi doesn't have Push-to-Talk”
“For now, I think they do it through their Jitsi integration.”
“We use Jitsi for voice/video calls + screen sharing”
“The chat seems extremely basic, so not really an alternative”
https://meet.proton.me should also be ready for action soon.
“I prefer it over Jitsi”
“Jitsi? https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet”
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.
“opendesk with jitsi would be my guess”
“Even something already available off the shelf! https://www.fsf.org/blogs/membership/jitsi-meet-an-often-overlooked-member-benefit”
“I used big blue button and jitsi a lot in the past”
“It comes from жици in Bulgarian, which means "wires".”
“my jitsi goto server for any quick drawing board sessions or screensharing/video calling zoom alternative”
“or https://meet.jit.si/”
“with Jitsi, it feels like I have a fireplace log in the hands when I use it”
“I suggested self-hosting http://jitsi.org”