What are we all using for video chat in 2023? - eviltoast

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?

  • danhakimi@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    I mean, they could enable automatic cloud backups (and I do mean enable, the solution is built into the system quite neatly and their automatic backups are already well-encrypted so they’re just being ridiculous about security theater instead of letting us have a very important feature). And they could stand to make the cross-device experience (much) better.

    but mostly, I wish anybody I knew used it. I’m wondering what kind of circle you’re in where everybody started using signal.

    • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I wish anybody I knew used it.

      I was the first person I know to even hear about it. I’ve gotten a few people on it, but it’s a harder sell now that they don’t support SMS. Back when they did, anyone could use it as their main messaging app. Now it can only be used to message other people who have it, and nobody wants to switch to something that they can only use to talk to one person.

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      1 year ago

      I was the first in my entire immediate family, got them all to switch to it. Helps that it’s easy to use

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        1 year ago

        I didn’t say they should back up on their servers. I think they should enable Androi’ds built in feature to save a file to a cloud location so I can auto-save backups to my cloud server of choice.