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Switch to telegram en masse.
by ilrwbwrkhv 6y ago
Switch to telegram en masse.
- JeremyBanks 6y agoYou misspelled "signal"
- summm 6y agoYou misspelled "matrix"
- devenblake 6y agoYou misspelled "IRC"
- insert_coin 6y agohonest question: what's with all the signal spam? are you guys getting paid?
- pmoriarty 6y agoOne of my biggest problems with Telegram is that they demand your phone number before you can use the service. This is a problem with Signal as well. My phone number and my identity is none of their business.
- greshario 6y agoYeah it's frustrating. WA also requires this, in fairness. It's very annoying though. I want a messenger app that's not owned by Facebook and doesn't require that I'm constantly glued to my phone to use it.
- theshrike79 6y agoAt least Telegram doesn't show it to everyone you chat with like Signal does. That's enough for me.
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- johnisgood 6y agoDo they provide E2EE for desktop by now, or still available only for phone? I would rather stick to Element, Wire, or XMPP (gajim on Linux, Conversations on Android from F-Droid). Briar seems cool, too, but it is not available for desktop.
- vinay427 6y agoTelegram still, AFAIK, has no way to backup or transfer E2EE conversations, and no desktop support for them either. Those are non-starters to me. Your encrypted conversations are stuck on the device on which you set them up with no option to change phones, continue a conversation on a desktop, or re-install the app. As a result, most people that communicate with me on Telegram use the standard non-E2EE conversations which makes it about as bad as (if not worse than) WhatsApp, privacy-wise.
- celsoazevedo 6y agoWhile I like Telegram, I'm not sure if moving from an app with end-to-end encryption to one that either doesn't use it by default (for direct messages) or doesn't support it at all (for groups) is a good idea. I get the idea of avoiding Facebook, but Telegram can see your messages in plain text...