[ar-nelson]

Using the Jitsi website has worked well enough for me for years, and the calls are P2P as far as I'm aware. What's the advantage of hosting your own? Just preventing jitsi.org from seeing call metadata?

[Slippery_John]

I wonder if you could get more reliable performance by planning a more centralized location. My book club uses the main jitsi site and it works well all things considered, but it's not perfect by any means. We've got people in several US and EU time zones showing up with varying internet connection qualities, so it's a difficult case.

But hey, it's free. And it hits the most important consideration: it could not be easier to use. That's pretty critical since my club mates don't have much capacity for troubleshooting.

[benatkin]

That misses the whole point of this post. You may as well suggest using Zoom.

[jrm4]

This is so wrong it hurts. Can't think of a better gap between theory and reality.

(I.e., there is no universe in which Jitsi's possible/likely abuse of this data is remotely close to Zoom's)

[gnicholas]

Zoom costs money beyond 40 mins, unlike Jitsi. It also doesn't require anyone to have an account, or to install any software. These are key differentiators in my book!