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I definitely agree with this. Getting people to use Telegram instead of SMS or other random chat apps can be difficult but getting them to switch to Signal is b
by blackfawn 6y ago
I definitely agree with this. Getting people to use Telegram instead of SMS or other random chat apps can be difficult but getting them to switch to Signal is basically a "not going to happen" until Signal ups their usability. Even people I've gotten to try out Signal all abandoned it. At least with Telegram, they stuck with it and still use it to this day. It'd honestly probably be easier to get Telegram to adopt Signal's protocol than it would be to get users to adopt [current] Signal.
- j-james 6y agoTelegram's protocol itself isn't necessarily a weakness - recently, a paper was published claiming to have proved the MTProto 2.0 protocol correct. Perhaps because of how recent this was, it doesn't seem to have garnered any discussion or review anywhere. https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03141 https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03141
- blackfawn 6y agoMy above post was more of a complaint of the Signal UX rather than a critique of either protocol but thanks for the link! I would be interested to hear whether people still perceive MTProto to have weakness... but that likely won't change with how much people seem to complain about it, seemingly without much/any rationale. Either way I'll probably still be using Telegram since that's where the users are :)