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Skype Replacement for Small Business? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/26910708

My small company (less than 30 employees) has been using Skype for internal group meetings and messaging. Since it's closing, we're looking for alternatives.

I think few people in the company are privacy minded (one of the higher ups had to get scolded to stop using some random AI to listen to all his meetings and write summaries), so we need something with a low barrier to entry.

We have basically no IT department, so self hosting would be a challenge. We do self host a redmine server via docker, and we have to connect to it via VPN when we're off-site (we have several full time remote employees).

Our feature requirements are: Group and individual messaging Screen sharing Meetings up to 2 hours Inexpensive Meetings with up to 10 participants Windows (some people use Skype from their phones also, but not a requirement) Minimal friction to setup and use Minimal bugs (mature)

Some of the ideas floated: Teams Discord Google Meet Signal Telegram Jami

I really don't think we could pull off Matrix, but am I wrong? Which of these ideas bothers you the least? Is there something else I'm overlooking?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

We use Zoom at work and that is quite good. I used Teams, Jitsi, BigBlueButton and Citrix and so far Zoom has had the least problems (Citrix being a close second place). It also has clients for all major platforms and OS.

Their latest update greatly improved the chat functionality (in my opinion) and it is slowly replacing all other internal communication channels (mail/phone).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I wouldn't consider Zoom to be privacy minded at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah...I honestly didn't look where this was posted. The text alone didn't quite make the privacy focus obvious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I care about privacy and I know this community is active, so I posted here. But you're right, this isn't a very privacy focused post. Do you guys have any recommendations for active Lemmy communities that would be a better fit? Piracy@db0 would be a trip I'm sure, but at least it's active. I hate when I've posted and nobody responds.

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