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?

  • airikr@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’ve been using self-hosted Jitsi Meet for a few weeks now. Works perfectly. Haven’t tried the calendar feature, though.

  • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months 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.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’m hosting a matrix server with a TURN server and it’s fairly easy to selfhost. This sounds exaggerated.

        • tekato@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          You can allow guest accounts, although it’s disabled by default in synapse.

          Call supports depends on the client you’re using. Element is usually ahead in features implementation, but you can get a list of clients and filter by features in the matrix website.

          Also I’m not sure what the other person meant by easy to setup. Matrix servers are notoriously hard to setup when compared to anything most things you would find yourself selfhosting, specially with WebRTC/TURN. I think there’s an ansible playbook somewhere, but I never tried it.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      2 months 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)

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Jitsi is close but it purely does video calling.

        Not sure what you mean by that. Turn off the camera and you’ve got an audio chat.

        I want something that is a chat where guests can join a group with a link.

        That’s exactly how Jitsi works.

        Signal is not self hosted but they also support videoconference style calls.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months 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.

          • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Right? I just want to self-host something like Google and all their services, but free. It also has to run on an AMD K6-2 with 1GB of DDR1 RAM and under 20GB for storage. Please don’t ask me any questions, I know exactly what I’m doing.