Tired of zoom, meet, w/e video conferencing software collecting your data?
Signal's got you
NEW: call links let you start a video call with your fave Signal users easily, no group needed. Announcing these, and other improvements to calling here
Signal has been running on Signal video for a long time, and the addition of call links about a month ago was a MASSIVE quality of life improvement.
Seriously, give them a try! Imagine, not sharing the contents of your daily standup with a large video conferencing company!
@Mer__edith but how else will I get ever more relevant ads for things I do neither want nor need? The planet isn’t going to destroy itself y’know, we need that thing machine to keep on pumping.
@Mer__edith awesome! Keep up the good work Meredith.
@Mer__edith ps. would be awesome if at some point in the future I have a way of flaunting my support (I started my donation on the website and therefore I don't get a badge). Super low priority btw. If you guys ever get to it! ^_^
@BonserGeoffrey
What do you think?
@ohmu This is awesome! I really like the implications of this for any kind of videoconferencing work which requires improved privacy. Our men's group could benefit from this.
When it comes to video calls, closing issue #8529 that is still unresolved after 5 years would be a much more massive quality of life improvement, for those who depend on metered cellular plans.
In all those years, stale bot tried to close it, since nothing happened. A workaround was presented as a pull request - closed by stale bot. People keep telling you under this issue that this prevents them from fully switching to Signal.
@katzenberger
Check if you have "Always relay calls" -- it uses external relay, going outside of local net.
Remove checkmark and try again.
One thing that really annoys me how it disconnects my paired desktop if i dont use it for some time and it then refuses to sync back my conversation data between mobile and desktop
@serapath this is a security feature.
@Mer__edith fair enough.
makes it a great messenger for those with intense security needs, but is a huge downside for everyone who like to be secure, but also keep their message history.
i definitely prefer https://keet.io in this context. Its peer to peer on top of that and file sharing any size of file is a breeze.
Downside - syncing files sometimes can take quite a bit of time, but that likely improves in the future.
also doesnt need phone number. just a 24 words based keypair
@Mer__edith @serapath Perhaps it could be done so that users can disable this in the settings if they wish
@serapath @Mer__edith That used to annoy me, too.
However, in recent versions of Signal you get a reminder if a paired device is about to be disconnected - which seems to happen after a month of inactivity.
I can live with that