# Free Zoom alternative and Storj DCS

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/free-zoom-alternative-and-storj-dcs/19174>\
**Category:** Product Discussions\
**Created:** [July 27, 2022, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/free-zoom-alternative-and-storj-dcs/19174 "2022-07-27T01:30:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![jammerdan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/jammerdan/32/1121_2.png) [@jammerdan](https://forum.storj.io/u/jammerdan)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/free-zoom-alternative-and-storj-dcs/19174/1 "2022-07-27T01:30:54Z")

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We know how successful Zoom has become during the Covid phases and lockdowns.  
There is a free alternative:

> **[Free Video Conferencing Software for Web & Mobile | Jitsi](https://jitsi.org/)**
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> Learn more about Jitsi, a free open-source video conferencing software for web & mobile. Make a call, launch on your own servers, integrate into your app, and more.

The interesting thing for Storj is that there exists an additional module that allows recording of conferences to AWS S3:

> **[GitHub - jitsi/jibri: Jitsi BRoadcasting Infrastructure](https://github.com/jitsi/jibri)**
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> Jitsi BRoadcasting Infrastructure. Contribute to jitsi/jibri development by creating an account on GitHub.

It gets even advertised as AWS marketplace product: [AWS Marketplace: Jitsi Meet 100 concurrent user video conferencing setup with recording](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-6ptyh5ixykvo4)

My idea is clear: If recordings can be stored on AWS S3 then it should be easily possible to store them on Storj DCS, but secure, encrypted and decentralized. This could be a huge thing. Maybe even something could be worked out with other web3 projects to tailor a complete decentralized solution where even the Jitsi and Jibri application components will run in a decentralized fashion.  
As these kind of meeting recordings normally get downloaded or streamed after a meeting, this sounds like an interesting egress use case for Storj DCS.

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**Author:** ![Dominick](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/dominick/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Dominick](https://forum.storj.io/u/Dominick)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/free-zoom-alternative-and-storj-dcs/19174/2 "2022-07-27T14:52:14Z")

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I used Jitsi the other day for a call and it worked great. Perhaps we write a how-to for our docs and then reach out to them.

-Dominick

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**Author:** ![jammerdan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/jammerdan/32/1121_2.png) [@jammerdan](https://forum.storj.io/u/jammerdan)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/free-zoom-alternative-and-storj-dcs/19174/3 "2022-07-27T15:15:03Z")

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> [@Dominick](#):
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> Perhaps we write a how-to for our docs and then reach out to them.

I think that would be great.  
Users and companies that use Jitsi and companies that offer Jitsi as a service need to be made aware of Storj DCS and the option to store recordings on there instead of AWS S3.  
BTW I have learned that even Brave is using Jitsi as their solution for Brave Talk:

> **[Brave Talk -- powered by Jitsi](https://community.jitsi.org/t/brave-talk-powered-by-jitsi/105697)**
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> Brave browser recently announced Brave Talk – a new privacy-focused video conferencing feature built directly into the Brave browser. It runs on Jitsi and is hosted by JaaS. Just wanted to say well done to the JaaS and Jitsi team 👏🏽 !!

So there is real potential. For everybody who has privacy in mind, the Storj DCS option would be a great option and even more when it comes with the free tier offer. These potential users only need to know that it exits.  
What I don’t know is what decentralized options are there to run Jitsi. Many probably run it on AWS for scalability reasons. But together with decentralized storage a decentralized scalable hosting apart from AWS would be a perfect fit.