Submitted 2 weeks ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I’m looking for something that can do chat, video calling with support for guess links and chats. I need it to work in the browser so I can send people a link to a chat session. Bonus if it has a simple mobile app and calendar integration.
Anyone know of something that isn’t Nextcloud Chat?
You want either mattermost or the whole matrix stack (backend, plus element with voice/video calls).
Matrix/Element is more of a discord alternative, whereas mattermost tries to be more of a slack alternative, where it seems to have some calendar integrations.
I haven’t tried it myself but Mattermost offers most of what you’re looking for.
I think a gitlab install has most of mattermost inside it, and that means installation and updates are handled. I found the install of MatterMost via its devs used to be very naive, but the gitlab people did something right in vendoring it into their massive install. Gitlab-ce is bloated as heck, but it’s fire-and-forget on the proper platform and may allow inter-org linking with or without the matter bridge thing (which itself affords some interoperability).
Jit.si
Self hosting allows you to improve screen share framerate
We use this at work. Great for screen sharing and video chat
I mean, that’s two strikes, but I know the people whom 8x8 bought in like 2019 so there’s hope. Like, wow, their video-conf app and service was astoundingly good.
I like Jitsi, but when I record a session it always silently aborts after about 40 minutes.
Check out Big Blue Button - https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/
Their website talks all about using it for teaching students but it's really just like Jitsi with more features.
I think Mattermost is intended to be just that.
Matrix with the Jitsi meet plugin.
I have not tried Matrix yet but I hear it’s a good replacement, fashioned more to the likes of Discord but I think it has everything you’re looking for
No!
I’ve been using self-hosted Jitsi Meet for a few weeks now. Works perfectly. Haven’t tried the calendar feature, though.
Huly is pretty amazing and has a self host option. It supports chats and video calls, team rooms, and has some cool integration for speech to text note taking. It also functions as a task tracker.
Under super active development right now so host only if you can deal with occasional breaking changes.
Idk, I’ve heard things about HooliChat… Didn’t their stream go down in the middle of a big title fight?
Plus that Gavin Belson guy keeps trying to jam his horrible signature into his products.
Considering
curl|sh setupIt’s already breaking ISO27002 in a few ways. I’m out.
What’s their revenue model? Thanks for sharing
They have a SaaS option as well, I’m guessing that’s the main revenue plan.
Cloud based solutions in selfhosted are a hilarious suggestion.
I’m selfhosting it on box next to me. Wasn’t so hard for me to find the GitHub link on their website.
Element Server Suite Community github.com/element-hq/ess-helm
I would suggest avoiding anything that is a “community” or “personal use only”. If its not fully open its not worth it.
Anyone know of something that isn’t Nextcloud Chat?
Do you absolutely need to put ONE tag on it all and say this is it?
Jitsi
,but it is a pain in the ass to selfhost with good performance.
You can take a look here as well:
I already made a comment but you should also look at rocketchat and revolt, since they are basically FOSS discord clones
(I saw comments in the thread about wanting audio only calls.)
I use jami but i dont think it fits your need for guess links.
Still leave it here just in case
Jami is a free/libre, end-to-end encrypted, and private communication software.
Jami is a stability and security nightmare
I wouldn’t recommend it
Please tell us more about the actual security problems!
Care to expand on that? I am seriously considering that as part of my post-skype future.
Im using it for 3 months now and I did not notice any stability issue. One time I experienced a long delay in receiving a message.
Do you have any details on why its a security nightmare?
All communications are peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted.
If you don’t mind seperated tools that do well in their own :
Vdo.ninja
I R fucking C. Who needs all the other garbage in teams?
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There is no way to do what teams does without significant infrastructure. Same with Slack and others.
If you want something that just gets close to the mark, look at Jitsi. It’s about as complete as you could expect for just video/voice.
What you may not understand about conferencing platforms is that they are dozens of different hosted services working together to provide a cohesive UE. Video, SIP, VOIP, auth, identity…these are all separate services that are deployed as microservices to get what you get. If you find the bare minimum of the services you actually need, you can probably cobble something together, but it’s not going to be a simple running of one service to get the same experience.
Smoolak@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m hosting a matrix server with a TURN server and it’s fairly easy to selfhost. This sounds exaggerated.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That just covers voice/video. OP is asking about a lot more.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Do you need Element for that? Also is there a way to do guest access with a link?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It isn’t that hard. All I’m looking for is a chat/video call service. Jitsi is close but it purely does video calling. I want something that is a chat where guests can join a group with a link. That shouldn’t take much. (It didn’t with Nextcloud)
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well if “it shouldn’t take much”, then it shouldn’t be hard to find a solution, right?
I’m now wondering why you’re here asking this question if you fully understand what you’re asking about.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Not sure what you mean by that. Turn off the camera and you’ve got an audio chat.
That’s exactly how Jitsi works.
oshu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Then write a howto instead of asking here. That shouldn’t take much.
mc@toot.houbahouba.de 2 weeks ago
@possiblylinux127 mattermost should do the trick. @just_another_person
toastmeister@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
If you want something to ruin the formating on his Office documents there really is no alternatives available sadly. Chat there is.