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In german companies, I see an increasing use of Threema as the "official" messenger. Is that only a german trend?
by qznc 6y ago
In german companies, I see an increasing use of Threema as the "official" messenger. Is that only a german trend?
- Markoff 6y agothreema is not open source and it is not free, Signal (better some European fork) without recent baggage would be better option user base is extremely slow, in Slovak media Threema is associated with mafia and murder of journalist, it will be hard to convince people to use same app as mobsters
- jacquesm 6y agoPeople also use money, mobsters do too. They breathe air, mobsters do too. I don't think mobsters using something that is otherwise legal to use is going to stop adoption.
- Markoff 6y agoif you hear money, mafia/murder are not the first words which come to your mind if you hear Threema in Slovaka - mafia and murder are first words which isntantly come to your mind, because nobody else use this app, everyone is already on Whatsapp, Messenger or Viber and nobody ever heard about Threema besides few nerds until media started to publish transcriptions of Threema chats from mafia where they are ordering murder of journalist you can downvote all you want, that's reality, same as when you hear Ford Pinto
- dividedbyzero 6y agoIn Germany, you usually hear about Threema as the app that you should use if you care about data protection. Signal isn't as well known, but it's gaining traction. Neither currently has even the slightest connection to mobsters, as far as I'm aware.
- orr721 6y agohttps://spectator.sme.sk/c/22231150/threema-as-evidence-in-the-kuciak-murder-case.html https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22231150/threema-as-evidence-in-t... https://china-cee.eu/2019/10/11/slovakia-political-briefing-threema-messages-another-affairs-of-the-slovak-coalition-government/ https://china-cee.eu/2019/10/11/slovakia-political-briefing-... The parent did not say it is a mafia app. But it's use really is strongly associated with mafia in Slovakia. That for sure will never make it very popular choice for people in Slovakia don't you think? You can look for yourself, the only thing which pops-up on google when you search for threema and slovakia are the murders and mafia dealings with government officials and lawyers. BTW the Threema encryption was not broken. The messages were extracted from an unlocked iPhone X of the main mafia operative (Kočner).
- jacquesm 6y agoSlovakia is not exactly the largest country in the world and to extrapolate from 'Slovakian mobsters have used it' to 'this app is associated with the mob' is a bit of a stretch. It may only be hard to convince non-mob Slovakians to use it, but that's a relatively insignificant number of people on the larger world stage.
- akvadrako 6y agoI live in NL and have never heard of Threema, so it doesn't seem like a spreading trend. Though it does look interesting. Not FOSS like Signal, but at least a step better than Whatsapp.
- neuronic 6y agoOne cluster of my friend base has entirely switched to Telegram. Now I know I will get hit with a barrage of information why Telegram is also bad and blah but honestly at least it's a bit less info for the POS company Facebook.