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		adrr on June 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can wo... Zoom is popular because it can support 50+ person conferences. P2P really can’t support that many users.

boogies on June 3, 2020 [–]

That's part of why I mentioned Jitsi and not just Jami. The former supports partial p2p on one-on-one calls, but uses a central server to support 50+ person calls (though they do recommend 75 max on the free instances they provide IIRC).

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