Jami looks very useful. Thanks for mentioning this program. On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 02:52 Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:44:28 -0800 > D MacDougall <dmacd...@usc.edu> wrote: > > > The Wikipedia article on Jitsi > > says that due to it's hosting on AWS Jitsi is not GDPR compliant. Do > > you or anyone have alternative that can be said with confidence to be > > better? > > Jami is package in Debian and does not use a central server at all.
While Jami says it does not use a central server, from what I can determine it uses a central server for user accounts. Is this correct? At least the user accounts are not required to store personal information, other than whatever Username a user may choose to create, is this correct? >From my reading it may be possible to "host your own", thus a group of people, >as in a PC Users group could host their own account server for members? https://docs.jami.net/lt/developer/jami-concepts/index.html Jami is a distributed platform that allows users to communicate without the need for a central server. https://docs.jami.net/en_US/user/faq.html A username (optional), which is a unique identifier that is directly associated with your Jami ID. This username→Jami ID mapping is stored on a server (ns.jami.net by default, but you can host your own). > I > haven't used it, Is anyone on this list using Jami? And would not mind giving a short review on its effectiveness and its privacy? > so cannot say that it works any better or worse than > Jitsi. A local PC User's group uses a self hosted Jitsi, since COVID days and this has been very useful and effective. This works best with a registered DNS name pointing to your Jitsi server's Internet IP address. My family uses an internal LAN only (i.e. on our home network) Jitsi server for while we are gaming together. (gaming computers are in separate rooms). It is not reachable from the Internet. George. > > -- > Does anybody read signatures any more? > > https://charlescurley.com > https://charlescurley.com/blog/ > >
