Based on our record, Signal should be more popular than Jitsi. It has been mentiond 180 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
> 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
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
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
You can share your desktop with multiple users for free without an account using https://jitsi.org/. Source: 11 months ago
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
Just so you know: https://grapheneos.org/ and https://signal.org/ do exist! - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
Signal works the same but without the user tracking from Meta/Facebook. Many people use it as well but I'm surprised that a majority sticks to WhatsApp. Source: 4 months ago
A question I often get is "Well are my text messages safe" The short answer is... Maybe? Depends on what type of phone you use, your carrier, and a bunch of other factors. One way to avoid this is to use an end-to-end encrypted text service like Signal if that is a concern of yours. VERY IMPORTANT NOTES: Telegram and WhatsApp are not secure. The way to think of this security is that if is retained by a server... Source: 5 months ago
The linked page is on signalusers.org, but Signal's regular home site is https://signal.org/. I'm looking all over signal.org for some link from there to signalusers.org, as that would make me more relaxed about the authenticity of the latter -- i.e., that it really is run by the same people who run signal.org. Yes, maybe I'm being paranoid. But we're talking about an app whose whole purpose is secure... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
WhatsApp and Signal: Of course I’m going to conclude with the point to point encrypted communication apps Signal and WhatsApp. Most of our clients around the world communicate in these apps more than they make phone calls or send emails. Set up an account in each app and start leveraging the text, photo, phone and video features to have easy and fast conversations with your global contacts. See https://signal.org... Source: 10 months ago
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