Hopefully in-person meet-ups will prove much easier in 2022 - but, there’s still a need for video calls, so let’s face it, they’re here to stay. This makes it really exciting to present Element Call: the world’s first decentralised voice and video conferencing app powered entirely
So… they reinvented Jitsi?
@Yujiri not quite. it uses Matrix’s identity and signaling systems, and when P2P Matrix gets finalized it’ll be a peer-to-peer video calling application as well. it could easily integrate with Jitsi though, a bridge wouldn’t be terribly difficult to implement
I just don’t think it’s appropriate for a chat protocol to have built-in video and voice conferencing tbh. I think that’s best left to a separate protocol (like jitsi).
Jitsi Meet is just a slightly non-standard implementation of the video conferencing stuff standardized in XMPP though.
TIL
@Yujiri that’s true. i’m wary of Matrix and its rapid growth because i’m afraid it’ll end up bloated and impractical much like the Web itself
End up?