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Jitsi mentions (56)

• Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue

  > Tell me another platform that is free, has realtime chat, voice and video, has stable service, allows sharing images and other media, with good ownership management... And is open source. Mattermost: https://mattermost.com/ Rocket.Chat: https://www.rocket.chat/ Nextcloud Talk: https://nextcloud.com/talk/ Self hosting and some assembly required. I've run all of them on cheap VPSes to explore a Slack/Discord... - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago

• Twilio Video Going Down !!

  It was used to build video calling applications on the web without having to deal with the intricacies of webrtc and so forth. There is a really nice open source alternative, Jitsi and quite a few paid solutions like the Zoom SDK, Whereby, Dyte, etc. Source: 5 months ago

• How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features

  It's definitely a challenge, but another good thing about HN is people link alternatives in threads like this. I'm already checking out Jitsi (mentioned up thread) and it looks awesome. It's even open source: https://jitsi.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Plex live streaming

  You can share your desktop with multiple users for free without an account using https://jitsi.org/. Source: 11 months ago

• Penguins Unbound, a Linux User Group (LUG}

  Not yet. I expect it'll be online. The last two were online using Jitsi, but the specific link is only visible if you RSVP on the event page. Source: about 1 year ago

Pidgin mentions (15)

• Why so rude?

  As I mentioned earlier, this scenario happens to me all the time. This is precisely why I refuse to discuss why we don't use Git or GitHub for Pidgin. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Automattic is acquiring Texts and betting big on the future of messaging

  I did a find before posting my comment and found yours. >Cool I like Wordpress. But they bought a fancy Pidgin clone for 50mil...? https://pidgin.im/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• YOUR OPSEC SUCKS | UHQ SCHIZOID OPSEC GUIDE | BECOME BULLETPROOF

  XMPP XMPP stands for Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol and is used for communications for message-oriented middleware based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML). Many more people are starting to use this as a main way of communication using programs such as Pidgin to accomplish this. Pidgin is an open-source multi-platform IM client which most people will recommend for XMPP. The main reason is... Source: about 1 year ago

• Messaging is no longer Android’s mess, it’s an iPhone problem: Talking RCS with Hiroshi Lockheimer

  Pidgin is still a powerful messenger client for desktop once you get all the plugins needed for your particular use. Source: about 1 year ago

• Discord, or the Death of Lore

  I note that if you are using one of the alternative clients (like Pidgin with purple-discord), they can store local logs that you can then index and search. There is also Harmony for managing your account without touching the Discord website. Note that using unofficial Discord clients can get you banned. https://pidgin.im/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago