See i know and have heard about signal. Problem is trying to persuade others too it
It has a bad image associated with it when you mention to people to use they just assume you use the dark web 
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I think that’s the problem with competing chat apps at the moment.
Until there’s a shift away from Whatsapp at least, as all the current platforms suffer from “I had to download whatsapp because everyone else is one there”.
I have telegram, with about 2 people on it. Same for Signal.
Never heard of google meet and we use google for almost everything… and zoom for meetings.
Rebranding of hangouts
I’m one of the admins… we didn’t decide, we’d never heard of it!
Hangouts we never used because we went for a chat solution that integrates with our phones (8x8) which personally I hate but well, policy, what can you do?
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IF you run your own business, you can host your own Jitsi server with out worrying about security issues. If you can run your own server for a social club or friends without having to worry about censorship.
Remember, it is an opensource project and has its selling points but if it is an one off quick chat then stick to google meet or zoom
Well, other than taking steps to ensure you secure the servers against unauthorised access, presumably.
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Same here. We would never use it, but equally I’ve never heard of it.
Several years ago we needed email and document storage, and apps for business was what won. It’s been rebranded a bit since but it’s not like google are shouting these new things from the rooftops. Heck even during this lockdown I’ve had 0 adverts for it even though you’d think they’d want people to use it.
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It is zero concern as services are not enabled by default. What is more interesting is that there is zero marketing from Google about it. it is certainly not ‘worrying’ from an admin point of view.
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Also it’s not very good, for more complex setups it doesn’t work.