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European alternative to Teams and Zoom (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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I use MS Teams for online courses for something like 10-20 people. I find it pretty slow and clunky to change settings and it is painfully obvious that it was made for large businesses and not for my case.

Beside that, it is Microsoft and American. What are the best European alternatives for what I use it for?

I'd love to self-host, but I find VPS with the specs required to be too expensive for me atm.

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[โ€“] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

How about Jitsi? Never hosted it myself, but had several good experiences as an end user.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Do you happen to know if it also requires all those additional services, like Nextcloud Talk does?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    No, there are no such requirements. Some companies I have been working for use that on own servers. It works great. Just follow the link posted by @rbn@sopuli.xyz

    As an addition: You may also know BigBlueButton - not an European but a Canadian alternative (maybe misplaced a bit in this community, but as some talk about Canada's EU membership, well, maybe not that misplaced -:)) BBB is a video software aimed at education, but you can use it also as 'normal' video tool.

    And there is also Jami

    Edit for an addition: If self-hosting isn't an option for whatever reason, you may consider joining Meet Coop, a cooperative using BBB. Their servers are in Canada and several European countries (you'll find them in the website).

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    • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Zoom

    There are many other open source solutions that might be better, but you should try out element-call (github).
    Its the system used for calls by matrix/element, but it can also be hosted standalone as just a video conferencing tool.

    You can test it out without an account here. https://call.element.io/
    This site is sort of a demo i think, but i havent run into any limitations that would prevent you from using it for actual conferences.
    I find it quite usable and the software can scale to very large calls if needed.

    Im biased but i would of course also just recommend matrix in general to replace teams too. Ive been using it for years and its improved a lot. Its definitely still not entirely feature complete though, i have to admit.

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    [โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I've been using the Meet function that's part of the mailbox.org suite and it's good. Stable and good features.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    The tool is called OpenTalk.

    It's a product of Heinlein like mailbox, but it is apparently open source!

    (I have no experience with using or hosting it myself, though.)

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