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How to call you to call?
After blocking calls on favorite messengers, there were no less options for communication. The main problem is to agree
Photo: Agency "Moscow"
The state began to block calls in popular messengers. Officially. Allegedly, under the pretext of combating fraud, but, of course, we are talking about the lack of general loyalty and compliance with all wild manifestations of local legislation. The Russians began to get used to the restrictions on communication, August is a good time to strengthen repressions, you can see worse from vacation.
Well, reality has changed again, and we must look for new methods of communication.
The main advantage of WhatsApp* and Telegram - everyone has them, or almost everyone. Whatever point in the globe you are, your random or not very interlocutor will have one of these applications. And it is convenient. It is clear that there are regional enclaves, falling into which, most likely, you will have to acquire something national, but against the background of a multi-billion dollar audience for both instant messengers-this can be interpreted as exceptions.
If you simplify the situation: now everything is simply inconvenient. Voice calls via the Internet “completely” and “in general” - it is impossible to prohibit, the use of VPN, despite threats, is only growing - although this is also inconvenient. Yes, some part of the public falls off, some swearing and looking for new ways, after some time everything is settled-until the next initiatives of the State Duma. And while everyone is running in a panic, the only soothing solution seems to be an overview of alternatives.
But not everything is so simple. Ways to call through the Internet together or group - a car and a small cart. Including those who work well in Russia. But there is one problem: to agree between subscribers.
- There is Facetime/Messages and generally the entire communication environment from Apple. Owners of various devices were lucky, and, it seems, we underestimate it. Meanwhile, there are excellent calls, messages, stickers and integration with the operating system.
But here it will come and say:
- Guys, I have Android!
- Ok, there is the whole voice infrastructure of Google. The names of the services are constantly changing (for some reason, Google Duo and Hangouts were remembered, but now this is Google Meet )-but in any case you can call even from the mail, even from the text editor. If you completely simplify: wherever you press the call button - most likely, the interlocutor will be able to answer.
And yes, on Apple it all works too.
* And if you want a large company (and the two of them is suitable), it's time to remember youth - TeamSpeak, the grandfather of the blocked Discord , with amazing quality and audio codes - every fraction of a second is important to gamers. Absolutely, a forgotten application.
In this sense, there are many solutions for a “family chat” or for any form of group communication (although the first two are also able to), the benefit of the Covid-19 has made a great contribution to the development of corporate communications.
There are still Microsoft Teams, where your contacts were supposed to be preserved from the late Skype.
There is Zoom in the end. Today it is, if not an alternative, then at least there are on many devices. And it also works still.
But I remind you that the main problem is not that. The main thing, how to explain by conservatively configured or simply lazy to others that the path to communication lies through the development of new tools.
Only during the summer he taught my grandmother to use WhatsApp - the trouble came from where they did not expect.
You can look at different parts of the world. They say we have friendship with China? They write that from childhood they begin to teach Chinese. It's time to master the Internet.
WeChat is a popular combine. In addition to the calls directly, you will access the whole world of super -application. From stores to payments. Perhaps, outside of China and without a Chinese number, not everything will work, but the remaining one is enough for a long time.
Not enough, there is QQ - we can say that the analogue of WeChat, where in addition to calls, stickers, games and other joy there is a whole ecosystem.
What a relationship with Japan is not very clear, but in the same spirit of Supeeppes there is Line . And yes, you can call.
As Chinese services will be blocked in current circumstances, it is difficult to imagine. So, most likely, these options will remain the most workers. There is only one “but”: cultural features. Well, not close to the European spirit, which most of Russians have, the Asian booth in the interface. So far, in any case. We have mastered QR codes 20 years later from the beginning of their use in China.
So it makes sense to look in the other direction of the globe.
Despite the recognition by state authorities guilty of all mortal sins, social networks of the holding of the meta* - Facebook* Messenger is still working.
If you want multimedia, it's time to remember the forgotten old, namely Snapchat , which is more alive than all living things, is still popular among teenagers. A good reason to return to a long -familiar application.
Given that it is only about blocking calls, it probably makes sense to look towards the services built around the IP-telephony. Of course, they can also begin to block them, but so far this has not happened, you will get cheap international calls as a bonus.
Dingtone - it is pointless to list the functionality, here everything is about talking about, including. Additional international phone number, if necessary.
Here you can also take Textnow , however, here is a minus - all the main buns as always in the USA. But the main should work everywhere.
And that's not all.
For example, the Korean Kakao Talk was unfairly forgotten, the mention of all Russian services disappeared somewhere. Signal was not presented - but there is already information that it works every other time and not everyone. Threma was forgotten, because “here you have a grandmother Swiss messenger with industrial encryption for safe communication” does not always sound appropriate. Wire was forgotten from Skype developers. In the first versions - an application with an amazing design.
Calls inside different applications were forgotten, this functionality became so familiar that it is even difficult to give an example. Numerous versions of the voice and video communications through the browser-the Web-RTC protocol uses many applications, except for popular web versions.
The list could still be continued, but all this, by and large, does not matter. Once again they laid out on the shelves, once again showed. It will not help.
The problem of fraud and the use of mass communication services concerns not only Russia. And here the Russian Federation is not unique. But the problem cannot be solved by blocking calls. Today this assumption, by the end of the year, can be checked: how is the dynamics decreased there?
It is important that everything is inconvenient again, and inconvenience again with your own hands. To establish a connection is not the most banal business. Someone will remember how to call the telegraph, someone-how he pulled endless wires, about modern codecs that compress data without losing the quality of the voice-even no one will remember, because he does not think about such subtleties. And so on. Ending with efforts on negotiations with the grandmother’s grandmother (which is now not relevant). A long chain, the end of which was in the Ministry of Communications and Roskomnadzor.
There is no visible indignation, which is happening in reality, including the share of the use of circulation bypassing means - it is impossible to evaluate: the data is either spoiled or classified. What people really think there is incomprehensible. But obviously nothing good. In any case, a new reality has come for residents of the country and guests of the capital: before starting to communicate, you will have to agree on how.