Hawkpost vs Jitsi Video Bridge

Hawkpost

Generate links that users can use to submit messages encrypted with your public key. (by whitesmith)

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hawkpost.co

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Jitsi Video Bridge

Jitsi Videobridge is a WebRTC compatible video router or SFU that lets build highly scalable video conferencing infrastructure (i.e., up to hundreds of conferences per server). (by jitsi)

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jitsi.org

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Hawkpost		Jitsi Video Bridge
	Project
1	Mentions	2
943	Stars	2,844
0.1%	Growth	0.8%
3.0	Activity	8.4
9 months ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Python	Language	Kotlin
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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Hawkpost

Posts with mentions or reviews of Hawkpost. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-12.

Bitwarden Send
18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2021

Interesting, it seems to work very similarly to Firefox Send.
For communications in the other direction, such as when you want to make sure the other person sends you the content securely, there is https://github.com/whitesmith/hawkpost (disclaimer, this was an hackathon project I participated some years ago). Hawkpost doesn't even store the encrypted content.
I wonder if there is a solution that would correctly deal with both situations (never requiring the other end to sign up or know anything about encryption).

Jitsi Video Bridge

Posts with mentions or reviews of Jitsi Video Bridge. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-08.

Is async runtime (Tokio) overhead significant for a "real-time" video stream server?
5 projects | /r/rust | 8 Mar 2023

I've been looking at open source video conferencing software options, specifically Jitsi. When reading their deployment docs the phrase "real time" comes up occasionally, for example:
Zoom Video adding advertisements to the free tier of its service
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2021

It stops being peer-to-peer as soon as there are more than two participants (i.e more than one destination for the stream). Jitsi uses their Videobridge https://jitsi.org/jitsi-videobridge/ as a central server to do the multiplexing.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Hawkpost and Jitsi Video Bridge you can also consider the following projects:

Pushjet - The Pushjet server software

Jitsi Meet - Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.

Mumble - Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.

Rocket.Chat - The communications platform that puts data protection first.

Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.

Zulip - Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.

Centrifugo - Scalable real-time messaging server in a language-agnostic way. Self-hosted alternative to Pubnub, Pusher, Ably. Set up once and forever.

Mattermost - Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..