Signal itself is pretty intuitive, and the video feature fits neatly into its existing conventions. There's also no back and forth 'phone tag' as you try to locate the virtual room you're supposed to be meeting in. It all happens in Signal, so there's no guesswork required.

The video calls are great for simple meetings, and because you can only meet with other people in your Signal contact list, there's no concern over unwanted guests at your video call party. Signal is already a popular security-focused chat application, and it recently added group video calls to its features. It's the platform uses for our weekly meetings. It's very actively developed and has a whole collection of new features being tested and released each year. It's got customizable URLs that make it easy to share links with friends you want to meet with, in-call chat, administrative controls, and call recording. You can self host it or use it on the public instance at. Jitsi is an easy, casual, but robust video calling platform. Free online course: RHEL technical overview.

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