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Out of interest, why were you using telegram to begin with, considering that it's known for being a haven of shady content? Not just hate groups and paramilitar
by rchaud 1y ago
Out of interest, why were you using telegram to begin with, considering that it's known for being a haven of shady content? Not just hate groups and paramilitaries, but also tons of pirated content? All that content browsed gets linked back to your phone number does it not?
- int_19h 1y agoNot OP, but Telegram is the only popular option with E2EE that has good clients across all desktop and mobile OSes (including Linux), doesn't tie your account to your phone number, and doesn't limit the number of devices which can use the same account.
- phillipcarter 1y agoIt was a reasonable messaging app for a lot of folks in ~2013-2016. The stickers support was excellent and it had a lot of excellent features, even though its psuedo-open source stance was always a little weird. I also ascribed some level of trust to Pavel Durov as ultimately being anti-authoritarian given his history with Putin and thought that was ... fine, I guess. Anyways, with the rise of crypto came a lot of other unsavory things where Telegram became the de facto comms platform for criminals. While criminals will use any medium, it's also a matter of critical mass to me.