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The last time I tried to make video chat work with people, we dived between jitsi, facebook messenger, zoom... until something worked well enough. what are people using here now? Jitsi? Google Meet? Whatsapp? Facebook Messenger? Zoom? Skype? Facetime, somehow? The builtin thing in matrix that used to be jitsi but I think they updated it? Microsoft Teams? What?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ah, I forgot about Signal since I don't like to video chat alone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What do you mean? You can group call

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you have 100 friends online, maybe 2 of them will be using signal. Signal's adoption rate for normies is ABYSMAL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know more normies on signal than I have online friends, so it's just subjective

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doesn't make much sense with just one videostream and no audience

/s

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

alright, to spell out the joke: nobody uses signal. I wouldn't be able to pay my friends to install signal. there's nobody to chat with.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, everyone I know uses it so that didn't really hit the mark.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Really? Are you a web developer? Reporter? The only people I know on Signal are a reporter, who hates using it but needs to for sources, and a friend from undergrad (a tech school) who... probably doesn't use it anymore, I haven't actually been in touch with her.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's functionally the same as WhatsApp, without the Facebook bullshit. It's not some weird utilitarian program to "hate" 😂

I use it to speak to all my friends and family.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Likely just not in the US. Many other countries never had unlimited texting plans, so messaging apps that could bypass SMS became very popular when they came about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

SMS is just old fashioned and outdated around the time we stopped using flipphones and T9

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Literally all of my friends use it and since recently even my parents and family. But if you have WhatsApp, Viber, Discord, WeeChat, Kik and Signal... people will say... ah I'll use Viber to reach you and leave it at that. You have to get rid of others and then people start moving.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not everyone's friends are idiots.