3d ago

Ideas for free, secure, and privacy-friendly live videocall platforms

DISCLAIMER: This is something we'd like to do in the far far future, but we'd like to have some suggestions since now so we can research and consider our options. Please don't ask us when we're gonna do a cam session, if we'd like to give you a cam session, and please don't go to our DMs asking for a sexy videocall or something like that

Hello people, we were wondering about what would be a good option to do video calling or a cam session/live sex, that would be free, secure and privacy friendly. We're talking like creating a link and sharing it with other people we'd like so they can enter and see without much hassle (and if it can ensure privacy for the people joining, it'd be a bonus, but I'm not sure if horny people care that much about their privacy lol). We're in a Discord server that has a channel for camming but tbh we'd prefer to be more in control of who would see us. We were thinking about Jitsi at first because in 2020 you could create rooms without an account and people could join without an account, but now it seems you have to sign up with Google or GitHub to create a room, and that's a big no for us (we use Proton Mail for everything NSFW).

Aside from Discord, we've also read that Telegram could be a good option (but it requires to use a phone number, so we're not sure). And of course things like Google Meet or Zoom are discarded immediately, so yeah, we have no clue. Thanks in advance for your help 👌

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Since Signal now has usernames and supports group video calls, that is also an options. But it's not really meant to be a cam session, so might not be great for that.
Depending on your definition of "free" you could use Keet: https://keet.io/
- Thanks, I'll check it
@HotCoupleSD1959 I’ve been using SimpleXChat for voice calls, I think it does video too. No need for making an account and has some good other features.
- Thanks, we'll check it out
GNU-Jami, Jitsi, PeerCalls, Matrix or XMPP
- Can't currently use Jitsi without a Google or GitHub account (unless we're okay with someone else to be in control of the meeting, which we aren't), so can't use it. But I'll check the other options, thanks 👍
  
  Since Jitsi is open-source, there are other public instances hosted by known orgs that don't require accounts. That's what I've been doing since they started requiring it.
  https://calyxinstitute.org/projects/digital-services/calyx-meet
  https://brave.com/talk/
maybe jitsi
- First option coming to mind as well.
- Yeah, it was the first thing I thought about, but after trying to set up a call...
  I have to either authenticate myself or have someone authenticated in the call, which would be the moderator, and I assume that'd give them powers we'd prefer to have ourselves (mute, kick, etc). And if I want to authenticate,
  the only options are Google or Github, can't use Proton Mail. I guess I could self-host an instance, but that would require a lot of work
  
  Weird I've used it for similar stuff during corona times and it worked very easily back then
Matrix is a pretty drop-in replacement for discord and has encrypted video calling. The framerate on screen sharing can be kinda ass but iirc video was better, tho I don’t use it a lot so ymmv.
People would need to have matrix accounts to join your video feed but they’re easy to make and don’t require phone numbers. I’m not sure there’s any way to stop viewers from talking/showing video as well, so if those are things you want to avoid it may not be ideal, but check it out if it interests you because I might be wrong on that part.
- Thanks, sounds good, I've read some good things about matrix lately but haven't really delved into it. Well, worst case we could just mute our device to not hear other people lol. Thank you 🙌

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