Looks like they have valid reasons for doing this - also, remember: they still allow selfhosting. It's less about what they want to do, and more about 'people are shit, as usual, and this is why we can't have nice things'.
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Looks like they have valid reasons for doing this
Yea, the company does not want to be an accessory for crime or illegal activity. That's to be expected if they want to keep their business running. But that won't stop people from raging and claiming the project is now going to die.
It may be reasonable for them, but for the people using it this kind of sucks. I'm one of the latter so as far as I'm concerned, this is a bad thing.
If you rely on a single service this much you should either pay for it or selfhost.
Edit: What I wrote might sound aggressive but I don't mean it in a bad way. I understand your concern, just wanted to point out that one should be ready for free (or any for that matter) services completely changing direction, conditions, or getting decommissioned.
Honestly, fair enough. The fact that you can self-host is huge imo, which no one else provides and ensures complete control, unlike Zoom where they sell your information to AI companies.
The benefit of jitsi was how easy it was to just go to a link and get a videocall going. No account or software needed. It's no longer useful to me if I need to log in, because I don't have facebook or google accounts and I don't feel like fiddling around with 2FA bullshit to log in with github. I can't even log in to github at all on my phone for some reason.
Whereby is pretty good. The host needs an account but all the participants can just visit a link, no account or application needed.
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?
What did happen with OpenID, anyway? I remember it being big when Livejournal was a thing.
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.
Criminals ruin everything.
So sad
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