I assume this move, in essence, is meant to combat spam?
Also it's only their hosted for profit service. Use the fsf instance if you feel violated by a user account. https://jitsi.member.fsf.org/
If logging in is an issue, you're still able to selfhost Jitsi just fine.
Edit: this article feels like blogspam to me. https://jitsi.org/blog/authentication-on-meet-jit-si/ is the source the article refers to.
Selfhost jitsi-meet!
It isn't rocket science: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-gu...
https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-gu...
That's Not Good(tm).
Good thing Self-hosting still works I guess. Will have to set it up.
It doesn’t sound like Jitsi is sending Facebook and Microsoft transcriptions of your meetings so I don’t see why this is a big concern for a free service.
Slightly hypocritical reclaimthenet
Those bad actors and privacy-conscious people (both entirely distinct group, just in case it looks like I'm putting those two in the same category..) can still self-host their own Jitsi Meet server if they want to.
Why that might be is often revealed on techdirt:
- https://www.techdirt.com/edition/freespeech/
For other reasons, see also:
- https://mattfrisbie.substack.com/p/the-ugly-business-of-mone...
If you are doing P2P then you will be able to get the remote's IP address.