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There's literally a section on how he switched to Telegram.
by wackro 6y ago
There's literally a section on how he switched to Telegram.
- qwerty456127 6y agoI see. Thanks. It was deep down there. By the way, I've just came up with an idea of what's really wrong with messengers like Telegram and WhatsApp: you can't read a message without telling the sender you've read it. And this forces you to answer. This way I often have to avoid viewing a message so they don't get notified. This is a huge annoyance which kind of ruins my life every now and then. Thanks G-d they don't insist to show when you are online. I would even pay some reasonable subscription to have a stealth mode so people would have no means to see whether I am online and if I've read their message.
- wackro 6y agoIn whatsapp you can turn this off in privacy settings
- qwerty456127 6y agoCool! But you can't edit messages in WhatsApp and desktop support is very bad - I need both all the time.
- vonseel 6y agoTelegram is a really great app user experience wise, but I'm more preferential to Signal because I've read in-depth about the double-ratchet algorithm. Weren't there some concerns about Telegrams implementation or privacy issues or something with that app?
- qwerty456127 6y agoOrdinary Telegram chats are not secure, secret chats are secure - nobody has ever explained how the latter possibly can be eavesdropped. The problem with Telegram is many people don't know they are to create a secret chat explicitly every time they want a secure conversation. However, the fact Russia has unbanned Telegram after Durov's claims they have implemented an illegal content busting mechanism seem alarming: we all know some harmless things many good people like (e.g. discussing government's faults, smoking weed or sharing voluntarily-taken nude pictures) are illegal in many countries.
- vonseel 6y agoShit, I didn't know that and I have tested Telegram specifically thinking I was using an E2E encrypted application. Fuck me.