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Making a separate account on Jitsi would have been fine, but they only allow use of existing centralized account systems from github (microsoft), facebook, or google.

That's Not Good(tm).

Good thing Self-hosting still works I guess. Will have to set it up.

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Managing a public authentication service requires ongoing maintenance and monitoring costs. While they could pay a third party to manage it for them, this is a reasonable decision for them to keep costs low.

It doesn’t sound like Jitsi is sending Facebook and Microsoft transcriptions of your meetings so I don’t see why this is a big concern for a free service.

It requires you to have a Microsoft/Facebook/Google account in the first place.

Google/microsoft authentication is a platform risk and is basically saying those third parties own all your users. It can and does backfire all the time.

Self hosting isn’t exactly anonymous either.

Anonymity is in the eyes of the beholder. In this case, self-hosting might make your interactions "anonymous" in the eyes of Google, Microsoft, or Meta, even if it doesn't make you anonymous to whatever platform you use to host the software.

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