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by luxpir 3563 days ago
A few, but none with enough momentum to win over the mainstream. See Tox, Vector/Matrix, Jitsi with OTR... Otherwise there are web-based solutions that work well. Is it talky.io?

EDIT: Not forgetting Signal, of course. But I think you mean video comms?
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Arathorn 3563 days ago
I'm cautiously impressed by Matrix's momentum, to be honest (although I'm biased given I work on it) - we've got over 300K users on the matrix.org server now and around 1000 other servers visible from matrix.org. Meanwhile Riot.im (the app previously known as Vector.im) is hopefully pretty mainstream friendly...
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ripdog 3562 days ago
I'm looking forward to Matrix too. It's still very immature right now through, as (as I understand it) we're still waiting for E2E encryption on mobile and group video calling(?).

It's hard to see Matrix as a standard right now too, with only one server and one client even remotely complete. Would love to see a multiplatform native client!

Thanks for the work you do, I realllllly hope matrix attains some success.

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