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I have a community-based website and I'd like to add a text and video-chat feature to it. I'd like it to be text-first and video second, so you don't have to be streaming to be in the room and for the main part, to be text. Everything I find is video-only. I can host the video streaming data myself.

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

So like zoom but open source? Jitsi is the first thing that comes to mind.

[-] foster@lemmy.hangdaan.com 2 points 2 days ago

You can try out Peer Calls. It's a peer-to-peer video and text chat that uses WebRTC, and is very lightweight. You can either use the flagship instance or self-host your own. One of the disadvantages is that text messages are not stored and are lost when the chat room is closed.

[-] TomAwezome@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

IRC could work as a backend for text chat, Twitch based their chat system on that and heavily modified things. Jitsi, or Jami support video out of the box. Could probably also roll your own with XMPP and WebRTC

[-] 0101100101@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

As much as I love IRC, it's a terribly insecure platform and I'm trying to avoid rolling my own if I can help it, but yeah WebRTC support would be necessary. Do Jitsi support text now, it's always appeared video first to me?

[-] solrize@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I've used nextcloud for this but it's not great. I'm sure there are better alternatives.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://conversejs.org/ it's an XMPP based slack alternative.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

Have you looked into Matrix?

[-] 0101100101@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago

Matrix

It seems extremely convulated and offers far more features than just video-chat?

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