That and the security.It is no secret that I love rocket.chat platform (considering they have changed their brand look I will use the same here as well, so the name is in small caps). I still really like how an account isn’t necessary, only a web browser or a mobile app having my friends join by clicking a link really sold me on Jitsi Meet.
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It seems like pretty standard video chat software with text chat, screen sharing, and password protected rooms as well. I’ll be playing around with the software over the next few days and testing out all of the features it has, and see if I need to resize my server to run it comfortably. If someone can prove me wrong, please do.
With all this in mind, running it on a shared hosting server is likely not an option, and you’ll need a dedicated server for it. The server does need a fully qualified domain name for everything though, and that domain name has to be specified in /etc/hosts.
Jitsi Meet not only automatically configures Nginx (or Apache) with a virtual host for itself, but installs and sets up automatic renewal for an SSL cert from Let’s Encrypt as well. Sudo /usr/share/jitsi-meet/scripts/install-letsencrypt-cert.sh & \
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Sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https & \
Here are all the commands I ran to get it installed and configured: sudo apt-add-repository universe & \Įcho 'deb stable/' | sudo tee /etc/apt//jitsi-stable.list & \ I’ve honestly spent more time writing this blog post than I did configuring Jitsi Meet. Then it was just a matter of following the instructions in the Jitsi Meet quick install guide. After it was rebuilt as new, I went through the boilerplate of creating a user and hardening the server I outlined in my Tor Hidden Service post, just with the instructions tailored for Ubuntu instead of CentOS. I repurposed the server I had set up Mattermost on, as I already had an A Record pointing to it and it was already running Ubuntu thank you DigitalOcean for the option to rebuild the server from an image. It’s open source, it’s encrypted, you don’t need to sign up, and I can set it up myself. I have recently been hearing how easy Jitsi Meet makes secure video calling. I don’t even use Gmail for my personal email and I still have a Google account. But apparently we’re still living in 2007 and everyone has a Yahoo email and an iPhone, so no one else has a Google account. One day though, after I get a Librem5 or something and don’t have to rely on Google for anything, I’ll finish moving all of my cloud storage and calendars to self-hosted stuff or ProtonMail like I did my email.
Services like Duo, and Hangouts, and the captcha on this blog because I’m tired of getting constant spam. I don’t really trust Google either, but I already have to use Google for my phone, so I may as well use their services while I’m there. He’s said some other stuff too, but that’s really not the point. As the human incarnation of the GNU HURD kernel has probably said would probably say “Give me libre software or give me death”. I don’t trust Facebook, Zoom, or Apple, so I’m not using any of their services for video calling. Spamming the invite link on our Reddit chat for sharing memes isn’t going to work, and logging back into Facebook after all these months is not effort I’m willing to expend. In my last post I went on about watching anime and installing Mattermost on a VPS to play DnD with my friends on, but I had a realization: it’s going to take a lot to coordinate my group of friends long enough to get them all to sign up for an account on my own server for text chat.