And yeah, it's quite funny, how noone proposting has a measured opinion, it's always: Zoom's by far the best...
(and being in education, it seems like around 50% of my course participants are joining Zoom on mobile, because it won't work on their computer...)
As for alternatives: all are sh* in one way or another (try Jitsi with Chrome please, then it works great!, I know of a local LUG which outright bans non-Blink on their instance....). I use it now, because admininstration says it's fine (and discord is equally horrible from a privacy standpoint)
Re:Zoom corrects usage numbers: says it has 300M daily meeti...
by shim__ on Friday May 01, 2020 @01:48AM
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There are alternatives provided that you don't need video. Mumble and Teamspeak have a proven trackrecord on all platforms and work even with the shittiest of internet connections.
And yeah, it's quite funny, how noone proposting has a measured opinion, it's always: Zoom's by far the best... (and being in education, it seems like around 50% of my course participants are joining Zoom on mobile, because it won't work on their computer...)
As for alternatives: all are sh* in one way or another (try Jitsi with Chrome please, then it works great!, I know of a local LUG which outright bans non-Blink on their instance....). I use it now, because admininstration says it's fine (and discord is equally horrible from a privacy standpoint)