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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] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whatever the other person uses. Everyone uses something different and I raarely feel like convincing someone to switch to something new, much less helping them figure out how to do it. Of my circle of friends, it's least painful for me to just find out what they already use and install it myself.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Good catch. That's one I've never encountered. Also now that I think of it, if Facebook has video calls, I wouldn't install it.

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[–] Skimmer 28 points 1 year ago

I usually use Signal.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This. Slowly but surely everyone around me has migrated to Signal. It's reliable and avoids all kinds of restrictions while remaining secure and private. Nothing more can be asked of it.

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

Nothing more can be asked of it.

Arguable, the ability it already had of being able to also receive SMS so you wouldn't be stuck using two apps to accommodate the non Signal users of your life.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [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 (11 children)

What do you mean? You can group call

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

Jitsi.

No installs required on any participant. No login required (except for host recently). No time limit or user limit (maybe there is but we use it and have never had any problems). Works awesome.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If something costs nothing then you are the product though. Have you looked into their TOS?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Jitsi is FOSS and you can self-host it.

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

Yes. They're quite reasonable, especially considering you don't even need an account. https://tosdr.org/en/service/2201

It's a Free Software product. They are owned by 8x8 which charges for its video solutions, but Jitsi is absolutely free and Free. https://www.8x8.com/products/plans-and-pricing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you don't even need an account.

That's sadly not true anymore for their own hosted service:

https://jitsi.org/blog/authentication-on-meet-jit-si/

tl;dr: you need to login with a Google, Facebook or Github login to create a room

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Google meet for most people and WhatsApp video with family.

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

Everyone I communicate with regularly uses Signal, so Signal when it's needed. But it's very rare.

For work, Jitsi. Also Whereby.

Jitsi's the easiest cause you can just pop it open and start using it without registration. And the rooms you use are deleted after some amount of days (can't remember exactly how many days).

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Zoom was the easiest, since you can send someone a link and the other person doesn't have to download anything, but I think plenty of other video conferencing apps have that feature now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whatever you used don't use Microsoft teams. I'm so so sick and tired of that piece of crap. Literally anything will fail, at random. Need to demo a software update to a coworker? Ups, screen share suddenly just gives a black display. Now your audio just flat out refuses to work. Now you don't have a camera. Half the calls I get won't ring on my Desktop, incant pick up the call. Teams mobile on Android is a similar shit show.

Then, Go to google Meet, everything works perfectly fine and the video quality is just plain better.

Yet so many companies have this "we need to do everything with Microsoft because Microsoft goooood"

Edit: just saw this is an Android sub. My bad. Still, I'll leave it here because teams on Android is a shit show as well, so is Microsoft skype.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I use WhatsApp with my immediate family, outside of which I just don't do video calls at all

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Mostly Meet. My family is mostly on android and it comes pre installed and built into the phone app most of the time so it's really easy to get the older family members to use. I did have to have my Parents download it on their iPhones but they didn't fight cause video calling the grandchild is important lol.

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

I avoid video chat as much as possible, but use Jitsi at work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Work: MS teams if it's internal or the client uses teams. Zoom typically if they don't. Slack for on demand calls.

Home: what's app video calls.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Meet, Discord, Signal. Depends on who I'm calling.

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

I was lucky to be able to convince most of my family to use Telegram. Now that they are comfortable I can't get them to try anything else.

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

ooof. monkey's paw, huh?

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

I really like Telegram generally, including for voice and video. Having native desktop clients too sweetens the deal, even on platforms like Linux. Plus it feels fairly native on each platform, so that makes it easier to get people to switch, versus “this app feels too foreign/clunky on my OS”. Signal is a pretty lousy experience on iOS for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Teams at work, nothing at home because why would I want to talk to anyone other than my wife

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Discord and Messenger yeah I know their awful but I have no other choice my whole family and friends dgaf about privacy and stuff like that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Discord. Thats what my friends use

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Webex at Work (best endpoints) Portal for family WebRTC based server with STUN for friends

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Before, I used to use Google Duo, now using whatsbapp video calls (quality is poor compared to snapchat video call).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Usually one of the big three for work: Zoom, Meets or Teams.

Personal it depends, but usually Telegram or Discord.

Of all the services I used so far, the one I hate most is Teams. It has the highest rate of issues and not always the easiest to troubleshoot.

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

Teams for work and when I ever need to for personal calls which is really rare, Telegram.

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

FaceTime

It’s such a rare use case that there’s no point in installing something else for me

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

Ah, I figured there wouldn't be too many FaceTime people in the android community, but here we are.

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

I didn’t even realize I was in the android community tbh. Just scrolling local

I really should read more before replying 😂

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

We're all friends and some of us have both Android and iOS phones. Facetime is excellent.

I also use Signal or Skype, though the latter usually from my PC.

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