A new category (and very close poll) last year.

--jeremy

Zoom

Yes, I too was expecting to see Zoom, but I guess it's regarded as Social Media.

I use only MS Teams, but that is definitely not the "Application of the Year".

No Pidgin?

BigBlueButton ought to be listed too.

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Element (Matrix) allows command-line clients, at least...

We've succesfully been using Jitsi Meet at work(*), and I sometimes see it used embedded (?) in other professional surroundings.

(*) See this list: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/doc...nity-instances

It's not on the list, but IRC/Hexchat is still the best

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Cisco teams, works better than MS teams

Cisco teams, it's better than MS teams

My LUG has been using jitsi for meetings for quite a while in these viral times. Our unofficial leader did quite a bit of research before selecting it.

It works very nicely and it's open source.

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Slack seems to get the job done

Right, what was really wrong with XMPP and self-hosted services? Is there any option that is not based on a proprietary protocol and a hidden server implementation running on some SaaS cloud?

With Gajim (or Conversations on Android, or some iOS application) you could have OMEMO based end-to-end encryption on top of XMPP a.k.a. Jabber. I do not know if Pidgin supports that. There are also many XMPP server implementations available in GNU/Linux distributions, and some of them are small enough to run on low-end hardware such as Raspberry Pi.

I am forced to use Slack at work, but I will not vote for it, because it is not my choice.

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^ I fully agree. Really we should have protocols (that work with various apps), not just apps that each cook their own stew.

One of these days I will go down that rabbit hole (not only for video conferences, also messaging etc.) and see what is there. I believe the keyword is "fediverse"?