Zoom and Gloom: Use It to Your Own Peril

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11 pointslikhuta5 comments

Decentralized services would be great, but also just using browser based alternatives like https://whereby.com and https://team.video is already much better than installing random binaries that do who knows what.

Smart, responsible people have been working on WebRTC standards, browser security models etc for the last ~ten years. We throw that all out and put a lot of faith in one private company when we all switch over to zoom...

Have you tried any of those two?

Yes, both are great.

For team.video it's a small thing, but the game while you wait for the meeting to start -- has actually gotten people to show up early for stand up, so we get to start on time. Which is a little bit of a miracle after nothing else seemed to really be able to make that happen

Waiting for Telegram to add video calls and conference calls. Or Signal, that would be so much better.

Yeah. Telegram is my favorite messenger as well.

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