It did, didn't it? It became so popular that meet.jit.si had to shutdown. Fortunately theres tons of free ones run by other orgs.
Zoom and Gmeet are usable (usually calls are stable and quality is ok) but closed-source shit, and I had a lot of stability issues on public jitsi instances (though I never self-hosted).
I've tried opentalk for the first time a few weeks ago (it's included in my email provider plan) and it worked fine.
It did, didn't it? It became so popular that meet.jit.si had to shutdown. Fortunately theres tons of free ones run by other orgs.
they use https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway as the webrtc backend, at least according to https://opentalk.eu/en/open-source-code-und-community. so the rust part is probably just for chat and signaling.
What's wrong with jitsi tho?
Jitsi quality has always been really bad in my experience.
I know during COVID I tried Jitsi Meet eith a friend and we had quality issues using the FSF server. Zoom was way better. Have not conferenced since then. Plus way more people have Zoom installed, tested, and know how to use it.
Also Zoom, people can dial in by phone. My wife conferences with a friend where that is required.
Would prefer a FOSS alternative. Sadly above is our experience which shows why Zoom is way more popular.
Yeah that seems to be my experience, at least with public servers. I have my own Jitsi server running on a N100 mini PC but have not tested extensively. Send me a message if you want to try it.
@helenslunch @furrowsofar I'm very happy with https://meet.coop - runs on BigBlueButton, secure and Open Source, but not free. But I don't mind paying for a good service.