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No family in China, but some friends there. Do you know of any good replacements for contacting friends & family there? The google suite is banned, FB is off t
by tomasreimers 6y ago
No family in China, but some friends there. Do you know of any good replacements for contacting friends & family there?
The google suite is banned, FB is off the table, WhatsApp works sometimes (I imagine strained relationships between FB / China), Skype is alright, although pretty laggy.
The ones I've found reliable are:
- Zoom
- Facetime (I imagine this benefits from Apple's relationship wit the Chinese govt)
- WeChat (soon deprecated)
- lisnake 6y agoTelegram maybe? Not sure if it works in China though.
- zkid18 6y agoAlso blocked in China
- devit 6y agoE-mail? (PGP encrypted and signed if needed) WebRTC-based software? (e.g. Jitsi Meet, https://meet.jit.si https://meet.jit.si)
- irjustin 6y agoWe use Zoom - that's about the only thing left these days that works reliably other than a self hosted VPN tunnel.
- 1915cb1f 6y agoMy parents, who work in both China and the U.S., use telegram
- f1refly 6y agoHow about xmpp?
- jhart99 6y agoZoom works fine. Teams was working as of a week ago.