I’m from Mexico, and the most used chat application is WhatsApp. It’s used for EVERYTHING. I use Telegram only for contacting my family members (both my parents and my brother). They also use it only for this family chat. All my (and their) contacts use WhatsApp instead.

Now with the news that Telegram will collaborate with Twitter, I feel that I should delete it. Not that Zuck is any better than Musk, but still…

Also I don’t think it’s worth the effort to teach my parents yet another messaging app, like signal.

          • Routhinator@startrek.website
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            2 months ago

            Its what makes it more secure. Why do you need a chat app that allows your parents to accidentally stumble into a group of con artists or kids to stumble into things they shouldn’t be exposed to? It’s a messaging app, not gamer group chat.

            This is what puts is way ahead of the others.

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    2 months ago

    Collaborating with Xitter is not the most distasteful thing Telegram has done. Its marketing model has been to consistently lie to people about being encrypted when that’s only true in very limited cases. It has also catered to criminals by attempting to make it difficult to comply with legal demands for information, while holding that information for its own purposes.

    Signal, on the other hand is always encrypted and does its best to hold as little information about users as possible.

    Also I don’t think it’s worth the effort to teach my parents yet another messaging app, like signal.

    What is there to learn? Every popular messaging app has pretty much the same UI.

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      2 months ago

      Isn’t it good for a communication company to be noncompliant with people’s conversations?

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        2 months ago

        Being unable to comply (signal) and selectively refusing to comply while still having access to the data (telegram) is not equivalent

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    I personally avoid telegram for anything sensitive or personal. Because there is no end to end encryption. You should move to Signal.

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    2 months ago

    Telegram was developed by Russians and HQ is in United Arab Emirates. They have always been sketchy af.

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    I’d take Telegram over WhatsApp as I find Telegram, ignoring privacy concerns, is an excellent messenger. Much better than WhatsApp

    But, Signal’s pretty great.

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      2 months ago

      I hate Facebook but isn’t WhatsApp end to end encrypted by default? I know telegram is not.