Video chat options?

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨OnePhoenix@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨privacyguides@lemmy.one⁩

I’m currently running Grapheme OS on a pixel. One thing that I’ve had trouble finding is a secure video chat option. I’m assuming that its because such a thing in a secure environment is hard to come by / impossible.

The only options I’ve found are things where you must self host like element etc. Is this the only way?

I realize there may be nuanced answers to this question that I may be overlooking as I’m still relatively new to online security/privacy so I apologize in advance if this is a moot question.

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afk_strats@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Signal is pretty good all around and phenomenal considering that it’s free.

signal 1-1 encrypted video chat

signal encrypted group chat

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- BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hard to beat Signal for getting all the core elements of secure chat.
  
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  - Para_lyzed@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’d argue SimpleX does it better, they’re even modifying the Signal protocol to support post-quantum encryption. No phone number, uses the Signal protocol, and has no user identifiers at all (no usernames, no account numbers, no account at all; everything is stored locally on your device)
    
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LWD@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you’re looking for something professional, Jitsi is open-source and only requires one person to have an account to use it… You might have a better experience if you self-host or find someone who does.

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- Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  jitsi really screwed up, it’s unusable now. they took down their default instance without explanation, and put it behind big tech logins.
  
  half the public instances dont work either, there’s no clear indication of e2ee in the UX either
  
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  - LWD@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They posted a reason, but unfortunately the reason was it was getting abused.
    
    But I did discover something: the list of alternative servers, which might not have been very up-to-date anyway, has vanished from their servers sometime after February.
    
    web.archive.org/web/…/community-instances/
    
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shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Molly (signal fork on fdroid (works with standard signal)), SimpleX chat (fdroid repo), Session (fdroid), Jitsi (fdroid (main instance requires google or github, but a community instance likely wont)).

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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Can you run Simplex Chat?

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- Para_lyzed@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes, of course GrapheneOS can run SimpleX! SimpleX has no dependence on the Google Services Framework, and even for apps that do have GSF dependence, they can be run with sandboxed GSF. The only apps that don’t work on GrapheneOS are apps that try to use the SafetyNet, which is mostly banking apps, or those that require GSF to have deep root privilege to operate.
  
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- bobburger@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I use simplex with graphene os on my pixel 7 pro and it works great.
  
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Para_lyzed@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The best options for you are going to be SimpleX Chat or Jami, depending on your use case. If you only need to make video calls, probably Jami is the easier option, but if you’d like to have a chat app with video call support, SimpleX is the right choice. SimpleX is also just a really good messaging app, because it has no user identifiers or accounts. They have a wonderful explanation of their method for two-way communication in their whitepaper if you’re interested.

Also, video calling in a “secure environment”, as you’ve stated, is not difficult and certainly not impossible. There are plenty of options available. Others beyond the ones I gave are Jitsi (but it’s gone way downhill; don’t use it), Signal, Element (you do NOT have to self-host for it, you can use the main instance or any other instance), and the options open up to basically everything if you make a new user profile and install sandboxed Google Play Services in the new user profile (from the “Apps” app). With sandboxed Google Play, you can use apps like Zoom if you really wanted, but I’d strongly encourage you not to for the sake of privacy. You can download apps without signing into a Google account via the Aurora Store.

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ISOmorph@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use Jami for video chat

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