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Improving Private Signal Calls: Call Links & More (signal.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] Iceblade02 15 points 1 month ago

Pretty cool, now if only more people would start using it...

[+] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, anyone joining it must be signed into Signal on their device.

[–] werefreeatlast 1 points 1 month ago

Hard pass. I don't want anything where the technology is not controlled from my hub or someone I trust.

[–] TseseJuer 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

where can you use any service without signing up? what kinda rage bait comment is this

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jitsi. Even zoom and teams allow joining without an account. Good ol' webrtc and browser tech.

[–] TseseJuer 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

how is joining an already setup meeting room with a guest account the same as this? you can't use those things without someone that already has an account inviting you. and wtf does "browser tech" mean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

True, one person needs an account. You used to be able to do Jitsi - and before it other webrtc calling solutions - with no account at all but now Jitsi also needs the first host to sign in.

But Signal calls, every participant must have a Signal account. The others, I can invite people to join with no account.

"Browser tech"? Just the fact you can make it work from a browser without needing to install anything else. Again, Signal isn't set up for that kind of thing. It's just designed and extended from a different use case.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

you can now enter google meet rooms without a google account. i did it last week

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

If they could let you create real polls to vote, it would be nice too.

Right now I think you can only react with a thumb up or a thub down.