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.
Unless it's facetime.
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.
I usually use Signal.
Signal
Signal.
ah, I forgot about Signal since I don't like to video chat alone.
What do you mean? You can group call
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.
Oh, everyone I know uses it so that didn't really hit the mark.
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.
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.
Not everyone's friends are idiots.
If you have 100 friends online, maybe 2 of them will be using signal. Signal's adoption rate for normies is ABYSMAL
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.
Google meet for most people and WhatsApp video with family.
Discord.
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).
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.
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.
I use WhatsApp with my immediate family, outside of which I just don't do video calls at all
I avoid video chat as much as possible, but use Jitsi at work.
Meet, Discord, Signal. Depends on who I'm calling.
FaceTime
It’s such a rare use case that there’s no point in installing something else for me
Ah, I figured there wouldn't be too many FaceTime people in the android community, but here we are.
I didn’t even realize I was in the android community tbh. Just scrolling local
I really should read more before replying 😂
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.
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.
ooof. monkey's paw, huh?
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.
Discord. Thats what my friends use
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.
Webex at Work (best endpoints) Portal for family WebRTC based server with STUN for friends
I can't get my Discord friends to use Signal because then we have eachothers phone numbers, and thats often a little too much trust for many discord peeps.
Before, I used to use Google Duo, now using whatsbapp video calls (quality is poor compared to snapchat video call).
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
Teams at work, nothing at home because why would I want to talk to anyone other than my wife
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.
Teams for work and when I ever need to for personal calls which is really rare, Telegram.
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