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Because there's only one way to turn up the heat on the crypto hellscape: more blockchain. Telegram launched a silly username auction that I won't link here. I
by acaloiar 4y ago
Because there's only one way to turn up the heat on the crypto hellscape: more blockchain.
Telegram launched a silly username auction that I won't link here. It essentially turns usernames into NFTs.
- sekai 4y ago> Telegram launched a silly username auction that I won't link here. It essentially turns usernames into NFTs. They need to make money somehow? Not really an issue for users who don't care about unique usernames.
- qwerty456127 4y agoVery sad. I loved the fact I could change my username whenever I wanted. Ideally I would want no username as well as no phone at all, just a random numeric ID like ICQ had. I really hate being forced to invent a nickname and be hard-glued to it forever.
- super256 4y agoYou can still change your username whenever you want. But the coolest ones are taken and being sold on the market. Similar to how ICQ low digits used to be sold.
- EGreg 4y agoWhy have a numeric ID at all? Just have a ton of private keys or nothing at all so no one can track you across any messages and anything you write.
- qwerty456127 4y agoYou have to spell your ID to people so they can contact you anyway and a number is the easiest to spell aloud when communicating to people from different countries because everybody (every language) calls the same letters a different way and almost nobody cares to study proper letter names as this is the most useless knowledge about a language otherwise.
- EGreg 4y agoNo need to spell it Send a QR code or a link that can be used only once. Why have an identifier that any number of people can use to contact you?
- qwerty456127 4y ago> Send a QR code or a link that can be used only once. I most often have to spell my contact details in a voice phone call because my primary job is to communicate to live people all over the world, not to code. Believe it or not but people actually call my office desk phone regularly (although I always prefer email if possible). Even in the IT sector (let alone administrative tasks, healthcare, utilities, etc), whenever you need a rack in a datacenter, new servers or whatever you often are meant to submit your phone number on their website and then they call you. Some very big Internet and datacenter operators don't advertise any ways to contact them other than by phone, some would publish an email or a contact form but ignore you until you call them. > Why have an identifier that any number of people can use to contact you? The same as the above.
- EGreg 4y agoWell then you are a special case different than most. You might not need the privacy we’re talking about here. You’re giving out ways to contact you that, if abused, will result in irreparable spam to that account. But it’s just part of a job you do. So that’s fine.
- jrm4 4y agoNot just that. Isn't disposable names a prerequisite for real security?
- nine_k 4y agoI don't use Telegram for anything that requires "real security", and advise against doing so. I assume that 100% of what I say in Telegram would be accessible to whatever authorities there are. I only assume that low-skill script kiddies won't be able to read my encrypted chats. I use Telegram the way I would use Facebook, or post-it notes in an office coffee point: with no expectation of real privacy. It still covers a lot of mundane communication cases.
- surewe 4y agoIIRC, they also took these popular usernames (since they were already claimed) without the owners' permission.
- Zuiii 4y ago> Telegram launched a silly username auction that I won't link here. No worries, I'll do it for you: https://fragment.com https://fragment.com Source: https://www.telegram.org/blog/topics-in-groups-collectible-usernames https://www.telegram.org/blog/topics-in-groups-collectible-u...