For the general public the best recommendation I (personally) can give
is:

1. Make an account on any XMPP/Jabber service provider that supports
   Jingle audio and video calls.

   Alternativelly, see if the service provider supports HTTP File
   Upload.

   In all the cases you can check the lists at [1][2].

2. Use a XMPP/Jabber client that supports these too. There are many for
   cellphones and for desktop computers and notebooks.

3. Start a person-to-person audio/video call.

   Alternativelly, make a chatroom in the XMPP/Jabber service provider
   of your choice (sometimes you don't even need to be registered
   there), invite more people and chat using plain text instead of
   audio/video.

   In that chatroom, use HTTP File Upload to send short *temporary*
   audio and video (how long these are kept depends on the service
   provider, their pages should describe how it works).

Usage XMPP/Jabber has the benefits of using a federated communication
standard, just like email is. So you have various XMPP/Jabber service
providers, some allowing public registration, others paid, and some
which provide addresses only for members of some
group/organization/university.

Alternativelly, use a WebRTC service provider. However, please note that
this approach isn't federated (if someone is in a WebRTC chatroom, and you
happen to prefer another service provider, you can't tell your service
provider to connect to that chatroom), and you'll likely end up running
non-free software (which is generally done automatically through a
language called JavaScript). WebRTC works well for multi-person
audio/video calls.

Finally, for those who want to help develop free/libre software which
communicates in a distributed way (beyond federation), projects like GNU
Ring ([3]) are always accepting contributions, specially to overcome
some of issues related to distributed communications. ;)

[1] <https://xmpp.org/getting-started/>, section 2 ("Create an account").

[2] <https://list.jabber.at/>.

[3] <https://www.gnu.org/software/ring/>.

[email protected] writes:

> Is there out any good program easy to use like skype?
>

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