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- Category
- Video calls · Self-host
- Cost
- Free
- Country
- Canada
- Licensing
- FOSS
# PROS AND CONS
+ what works
- +No accounts, no phone number, no central server holding messages or call metadata
- +End-to-end encrypted by default with TLS 1.3 and perfect forward secrecy
- +GPLv3 clients on Linux, Android, Android TV, Windows, macOS, and iOS
- +SIP-compatible and works on a LAN with no internet connection
− watch out for
- −Messages only deliver once both peers are online unless you run an always-on device as a relay
- −Group call quality is bandwidth-bound; the host needs roughly 20 Mbps up and down for 10 participants
- −Connection setup can fail behind strict NATs or carrier-grade firewalls without TURN fallback
- −Username registration uses a centrally administered Ethereum-based name server, the one non-P2P piece
# PRIVACY NOTES
Jami has no central server relaying messages or calls. Each device is a node on the OpenDHT distributed network, which is used to discover peers and bootstrap a direct, end-to-end encrypted connection. Conversation history lives on participating devices and syncs when peers come online. The project does run a public username name server and fallback TURN servers for NAT traversal; both are optional and self-hostable. Savoir-faire Linux, the stewarding company, is based in Montreal and the project is a GNU package backed by the FSF.
# REPLACES
google-meetmicrosoft-teamsfacetime
# TAGS
#p2p · #e2ee · #opendht · #foss · #gnu
# DOES THIS WORK FOR YOU
# NOTES FROM PEOPLE WHO TRIED IT
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