What do you mean by “traditional video calling”? Are video calls not encrypted? Is traditional meaning out of the box video calling? What is the alternative?
Modern Matrix has been moving towards a new video calling platform, but traditionally calls were done by just showing you a web page running Jitsi (by default https://app.element.io/jitsi.html?confId=something). I believe Jitsi gained the ability to encrypt calls, but you’d still be sending metadata (user agent, IP address, etc.) from your Element client to their servers.
You can prevent this by running your own Jitsi server and configuring your Matrix server/clients to prefer that. matrix-docker-ansible-deploy does this for you, for instance, if you just set jitsi_enabled:true in the config file.
What do you mean by “traditional video calling”? Are video calls not encrypted? Is traditional meaning out of the box video calling? What is the alternative?
Modern Matrix has been moving towards a new video calling platform, but traditionally calls were done by just showing you a web page running Jitsi (by default https://app.element.io/jitsi.html?confId=something). I believe Jitsi gained the ability to encrypt calls, but you’d still be sending metadata (user agent, IP address, etc.) from your Element client to their servers.
You can prevent this by running your own Jitsi server and configuring your Matrix server/clients to prefer that. matrix-docker-ansible-deploy does this for you, for instance, if you just set
jitsi_enabled: truein the config file.