tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo’s) successor, google chat.

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    Absolutely. What I’m looking for is actually an Alternative to Skype on the Desktop, that is simple enough to use for my mother. Discord is too overloaded for her. Hangouts would have worked. Maybe Google Chat could fill the gap, I don’t even know what it can and can’t, despite relying Google products heavily. I literally gave up trying to follow their chat efforts years ago.

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      1 year ago

      Just so you know, there is a desktop client of Signal for all major systems:

      I haven’t used Skype, but depending on use case, Signal might work.

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        1 year ago

        Hm, I think I knew that at some point…but didn’t know it could do videocalls. Thanks, might look into that.

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          1 year ago

          It has pretty much everything along with the comfort of it being by a non-profit organisation from one of the former owners of WhatsApp. Video calls, voice calls, group messaging, stickers, emotes, etc.