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submitted 11 months ago by dafunkkk@lemmy.world to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

Using simplexchat but for videocall it's unusable...any quick,fast and anon alternative?

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[-] erAck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

Define anon.

Apart from that, take a look at https://bkil.gitlab.io/secuchart/ and user feature (leftmost column) Video calls for messengers with Android F-droid/apk yes.

[-] dafunkkk@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

no login apart from user name (no phone nr / no e-mail)

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 months ago
[-] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

If you're ok with Jitsi, and you already use Brave, note that Jitsi is baked in. See https://brave.com/talk/ and check the "Who provides the Brave Talk service?" question:

The Brave Talk service is provided in partnership with 8x8. And the service is built on the open-source Jitsi platform.

(Note that 8x8 owns Jitsi)

See also the "How are my calls with Brave Talk encrypted?" question:

To start, all video and audio data transferred through Brave Talk is encrypted via transport layer encryption. This is similar to how many websites use HTTPS to ensure your traffic can’t be captured on public networks (e.g. coffee shop WiFi).

The video and audio from your call are transmitted to other participants with the help of a Video Bridge server that’s run by Brave’s partner, 8x8. When you enable Video Bridge Encryption in Security Options, your browser exchanges keys with other call participants, and these keys are used to encrypt the video and audio streams. Only people with keys can see your calls. Assuming honest but curious behavior, neither Brave nor its partner, 8x8, have this key by default.

However, there are some important limits to Video Bridge Encryption. If you want to include a phone participant in your call, have more than 20 participants, or want to include users with incompatible browsers (Safari, most iOS browsers, and browsers based on Chromium version 83 or below), this encryption setting will not work. If you record a call, 8x8’s servers will receive a set of keys to decrypt the video/audio stream in order to process and store that recording. Brave will continue to improve Brave Talk’s encryption properties and work to remove some of these limitations.

Read a more detailed description of Jitsi encryption (the open source basis for Brave Talk).

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Or you could use one of the hundreds of servers that have nothing to do with Brave:

https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-instances/

Just don't use the official instance because they require an account now.

[-] kixik@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

Actually to me, this has made Jitsi less of an option now a days, cause when people need to start looking for which instance, then things become no longer as easy... I now recommend instead Jami, which is close to distributed, which is way better, perhaps if people start using for video calls, it gains users base for being the communication app of choice, :)

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well you just don't recommend Jitsi. Just recommend a specific instance like framatalk.org/kixik. They won't know the difference and won't care.

[-] erAck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

So not anonymous, but pseudonymous.

[-] readwritexecute@mas.to 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@dafunkkk @erAck use session. its e2ee and you dont have to use your phone number or email.

[-] erAck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

Session is crypto-currency bound with dubious twists.

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