by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-22 03:10:16+00:00
I really love use fairmeeting.net as my jitsi goto server for any quick drawing board sessions or screensharing/video calling zoom alternative.

I have used it for more over than 1 year/6 months with my friend where we both used and we used to very consistently think of how this service is free and how great it is etc.

Thanks to fairmeeting.net ngl! One of the best services period. I wanted something in browser without too much hassle and something with a perma-link so I can join from different devices (I only had a pc back then and so I used to join with a kiosk tablet which only had browser & do other shenanigans)

I found element calls to be interesting too but still personally I prefer fairmeeting.net! It's really stable when we used it for so many hours for so many days.

I should probably donate to fairmeeting.net ^^

If someone from the fairmeeting.net team is listening, I don't mind donating 10$ or such (yes a little broke haha!) to fairmeting if crypto option can be supported in the official website

I do feel like there were some very minor features behind a donation paywall but honestly for 99.9% people its okay and what me and my friend used to do was use it with tldraw and make drawing boards and send messages with discord (I really wanted him to use matrix/we sometimes used signal) + fairmeeting.net + tldraw (before it required a sign in to create multiple pages, man that feature was so great for anonymous users)

Anyways, I spent an hour or two trying to build a claude script which can make jitsi servers easier to deploy by using cloudflare api+dns feature & podman

it's running on meet.fossbox.cloud enjoy everybody! (Please don't abuse it haha, sharing it in the same spirit as fairmeeting!)

The script is Claude generated and under unlicense. Pasting both gist(github) and opengist(my server) links:

https://opengist.fossbox.cloud/Admin/db747020aae14503b23e5a4...

https://gist.github.com/SerJaimeLannister/d9f1511854b4dc5b17...

> You can run zoom in the browser. At least you could some years ago. Encryption is relevant depending on what you're doing but not everything needs to be super secret. A common practice is to email or use secure file shares while on the call to maintain that security.

Edit: Just wanted the last sentence to show Jitsi instance at https://meet.fossbox.cloud

I kind of decided that I can help create an instance too instead of donating right away as my server runs <10$ (currently 8$ for 3 months 3 TB bandwidth everyday and afterwards a 100mbps cap plus more decentralization)

Although I might shut down the server if I would need to utilize the resources though so if I ever do that, sorry about that!

Alright time to sleep :> Good night!

Edit: the server's xmpp isn't working, gonna try to get a fix of it before I sleep! (seems like I had proxy true and it had to be proxy false)

Edit2: looks like its a bigger issue, I am gonna have to fix it later. Personally I don't know but I just like the workflow of using cloudflare api for dns management & building on it and I have built some other internal tools for myself for making ease of development so currently its gonna have an issue of self issued certificate which I will have to fix later most likely