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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by tppiotrowski on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @05:47PM (#23482536)
Are you trying to do one-on-one of many-to-many calls? If you're doing just one-on-one there is very basic webrtc in web browser service[1]. I've also made my own for quickly connecting with people online[2], not sure if it's your use case though...

[1] https://peercalls.com/ [2] https://tedpiotrowski.svbtle.com/moonlite

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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by mushufasa on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @07:51PM (#23483543)
It's for group calls. Jitsi worked fine one-on-one but as soon as a third person joined it became unusable.
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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by freeopinion on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @08:09PM (#23483686)
Are any of the participants using Firefox? There's a known problem with Firefox's WebRTC and Jitsi wherein even a single Firefox participant can create performance issues for everyone.
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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by mushufasa on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:08PM (#23484842)
I was using firefox. That's probably it.

Does only Chrome work? Seems to defeat the point of FOSS...

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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by ernesth on Thursday June 11, 2020 @03:23AM (#23486077)
It is due to a bug in firefox (some kind of feature in webrtc not being enabled in Firefox). It however works in FOSS browsers such as chromium.

It may be resolved now: the bugzilla entry mentions a patch: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606823

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