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Pity that _using_ telegram is a frustrating, spam filled messaging experience. Nothing nets me as much annoying automated spam as simply having an account there
by FridgeSeal 4y ago
Pity that _using_ telegram is a frustrating, spam filled messaging experience. Nothing nets me as much annoying automated spam as simply having an account there. More frustratingly, disabling messages from unknown contacts doesn’t appear to be a feature.
- dotancohen 4y agoI wonder why your account is attacked by spam so often. Conversely, I've never had any account get so little spam as my Telegram account. My email gets literally dozens of spam mails per day. Telegram, I'd say less than once per month. Exactly yesterday I thought that I got a spam message, it turns out that the sender is a SpaceX fan and a real interesting human, not the crypto-pushing bot that I had suspected at first when I read the greeting "hi".
- stavros 4y ago> Conversely, I've never had any account get so little spam as my Telegram account. I don't get that much spam in Telegram either, but this must be an exaggeration. My WhatsApp and Signal accounts get completely zero spam.
- ohgodplsno 4y agoMy five year old Telegram account has received exactly zero spam messages in my entire time there. Being a country that actually punishes companies for selling your phone number and personal information without your consent makes everything more pleasant.
- stavros 4y agoI mostly get them from people finding me from my group chats, really. I don't think Telegram shows my number to people (or has it), so I don't tend to get spam that way.
- dotancohen 4y agoI don't have a Whatsapp account. But I agree about Signal, I cannot recall ever seeing spam there.
- mmis1000 4y agoIf you setup username, you are going to get a lot of spam messages. I guess. Username in telegram is a public identifier that allow anyone to grant the permission to message you. The other ways to grant this permission are 1. Add contact with phone number (can be disabled in privacy setting) 2. Have a message/forward message somewhere you can see, and the original sender is you. (Identity forward of forwarded message can be disabled in privacy setting) 3. Be in the same group with the target (chat admin can disable member listing) Notice, this is a one time setup. A account only need to grant this once, and then he can message you at anytime.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoThere are privacy settings, you know? Did you set every option to 'Nobody' or 'My contacts only'?
- plonq 4y agoI’m not the other person, but there’s no privacy setting for normal messages, in the iOS version at least. So it’s impossible to block messages from randoms.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoYes, because most people actually want to be reached by people who are yet not in the contacts. The only way to do so is to have a username or phone number of recipient. Usernames are searchable if they are "Public Usernames". Phone number could be hidden from anyone. I don't see how someone can contact somebody on the messenger yet without an ability to.. actually send a message. Sure, there could be an option to block everyone not in the contact list and use some other medium to relay the contact request[0] but most of the time this is useless for messenger. But of course I have my POV skewed, because I prefer to use services defensively from the start so I had almost no unsolicited messages on Telegram, WhatsApp and Instagram. [0] Hey, if you interested in $TOPIC contact me on Telegram, @username! But first send a couple of avian carriers with your phone number and username so I could add you to contacts first!
- herbst 4y ago> More frustratingly, disabling messages from unknown contacts doesn’t appear to be a feature. On the android client you find this option under privacy. Pretty sure it never hasn't been there
- slig 4y agoYou cannot disable message from unknown contacts, their messages goes to a "archived" folder, but they're still there.