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Skype was shut down for good today (www.washingtonpost.com)
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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It was dead to me after microsoft bought it.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It really went downhill from them on.

Skype was only good while it still had a native Linux version.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

And as a follow up, Teams was never good because it was never native to anything (instead it was Electron and is now some sort of React/Edge homebrew).