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Can anyone recommend a good open-source chat and call solution? I'm looking for something I can run on my own server to support friends and family, with an iOS and Android app. It doesn't have to support more than one or two video calls at a time. I figure this is sadly the long term solution.

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I use jit.si as replacement for Skype. It's in browser, encrypted, p2p and EFF approved.

I don't know if they have apps, but as far as I know their server code is on github.

Thanks, looks like this is: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet

Note that jit.si is only encrypted in the sense that Skype is encrypted, aka transport stream encrypted. The server needs access to the decrypted video stream so that it can do split screen. See this thread for details: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/409

I personally use jitsi because it is FLOSS software and it's less likely to send conversation contents to the NSA or other dragnet surveillance entities. But it's not end to end encrypted.

Aha, I did not know that! On the plus side, you could set up your own server, having the guarantee.

I use Riot - matrix-based chat client, has group video calls, and also offers end-to-end encryption.

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