✏️ Putting Zoom in Quarantine

Updates on my alternatives (tl;dr; @Whereby is working well) and some success in isolating Zoom when I need to use it.

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@zorn I have had some luck with Jitsi, running on a small VPS. It actually works extremely well when I use it with my team of 4, all connecting from Munich, with the VPS being in Frankfurt. On the other hand, it’s completely unusable when I call my family: same number of connections, but scattered throughout Europe. I wonder if location is the culprit actually, but all my “local” calls have worked this far, so maybe. It did take me 1 day of tinkering to get self-hosted jitsi to work.

In any case, I find myself endlessly frustrated that in 2020 we still don’t have secure videoconferencing which just works.

@zorn Sure, thanks for your post! Whereby does look good given that I also work in a small team, and pricing seems honest as well. I’ll give it a try.