I show myself to subtly remind the team that I'm a real person. Most of them see each other in-person each day, while I'm remote. But it'd be nice if they didn't see such a zoomed-in view of my face.

I relate completely. I usually solve it by sticking a post-it note on the screen so it covers my face in the call. It makes the calls feel a lot more natural and less awkward.

Are you able to / have you tried turning off the video view of yourself? I do this on some calls and it helps a lot.

You can turn off self-view by default.

The day I realised this, was the day 75% of my zoom fatigue disappeared.

We use Google Meet and this is one of the big things I miss from Zoom, there appears to be no way to turn the self view off. On every call I have to turn it off manually.

I find that a lot of people who say they turn their camera off say they do it because they don't like watching themselves on screen, and don't realise this is optional. Personally I think all the video call systems should turn it off by default, I've never understood what purpose seeing yourself all the time is supposed to have. It would be like having a meeting room full of mirrors.

Cameras unintentionally left open would be much more typical if this was not the default. I agree that it still should be possible to have it off in every meeting after changing some setting, though.

True. Meet always shows you your camera view before you start the call, it would be nice to have two buttons when joining, one with your camera on and one off.

Either way, it would be nice if they put a bit more effort into these things. Video calling could be much nicer for a lot of people with a little bit of effort.