Just tried it with my team - we do typically have network problems with video calls.
The quality for one2one was great, but then it's the same with Matrix (which is also peer to peer).
For group calls (for which matrix uses Jitsi) was also very high quality - however, there were some issues:
when the third person connected, I couldn't see or hear him, but the second person could
this was fixed by disconnecting and reconnecting
after screen sharing the issue happened again
I was unable to end the call this time (button didn't work)
one user was unable to resize the video (when maximising, it cut off part of the picture). This was on ubuntu.
Summary - the technology seems to have great promise. It's an alpha release so bugs like the above are likely quite normal. We were using mac and linux clients.
i hope the unlimited file sharing will have an immediate impact for a lot of people.
it’s incredible how hard it is to send large files (1GB or more) from a phone or even a computer today. hopefully this becomes one of the preferred tools to use moving forward.
yeah wormhole is cool, wish more people knew about it. i reached out to one of the wormhole devs a couple weeks ago and suggested they should integrate lightning.
he was familiar with the concept, but was instead focusing his time on their parent company Socket.
We don't have a solid base to build upon just yet. This is another attempt, and it may end up being extremely solid. Rome was not built overnight. More people building and trying new things is good. Once a winner arrives, people will move to it.
So for now its wait and see, but it sure looks promising.
P2P chat protocols have existed for decades. The lack of "a solid base" may be a sign that there's simply no product/market fit. In the meantime, pick your protocol and spend the rest of your life trying to get all your contacts to adopt it. Then, give up and use Signal.
lol, I do use Signal. The chat functionality is not what interests me.
Bitcoin is a messaging system, do you also hate that because signal? Just feels like you are being salty for no reason. Nobody has a gun to your head asking you to look into this protocol, you are free to ignore it and move on with your life.
Just being realistic. Network effects exist. If a feature makes a 100x improvement but has 1/1000th of the userbase, then the feature is still less valuable than the "inferior" alternative with more users.
I understand that it's literally "Day 1" and the network effect can only grow from here.
Signal is not entirely p2p. It relies on their servers to relay some types of messages and contact discovery. They even use Intel proprietary encryption extensions.
Signal also dabbles in shitcoinery.
There is no comparison. Posting that XKCD comic was out of place from the begining.
No, being aggressively negative on something that was announced today is what I am referring to. There is really no value in being overtly pessimistic about something we still don't even have the full details of.
Not all innovations succeed. Most ideas don't get traction on their first, second, or hundredth iteration. Nobody knows when they will capture lightning in a bottle
Maybe you are correct in your assumptions, but you're just going about it in an unproductive and needlessly negative way.
I'm somewhat confused about the claims of privacy.
As far as I understand from the video, the DHT is used to map your public key -> IP address. This is neat, because I can send/retrieve your data based on your public key alone, but it also doxxs your IP which is pretty significant.
If it is P2P, where would this storage for messages exist?
Anyway, Keet is closed source currently, and I haven't even see anything saying Keet would be open sourced, ... just the Holepunch SDK. I do hope they will release Keet as open source though.
As far as I understand Jitsi Meet uses a server to coordinate and merge WebRTC video streams but it is fully E2E encrypted and decentralized as you can run your own instance. Much like Nostr versus other truly P2P alternatives.
I don't think you can transfer arbitrary files or payments with Jisti, though.
sudo apt install libfuse2