It was a many months transition, and it’s finally done

Fun thing, you can actually make a backup of all* your messages, groups, contacts, etc. So before leaving you can have all of your data in case you need that one contact or something

The final red flag was as that allegedly Russian authorities were messing with people’s deleted messages. Not for the first time there are news that they could read, modify, delete, see location, and etc. Screw it, this is unsafe, I’m out.

Also, these days telegram is really at the state of a pile of garbage, bloated, buggy, and shady messenger.

  • Kiryu@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Why did Telegram get so popular in the privacy scene compared to Signal in the first place? To my knowledge Signal came out first and never had a history of breaches or leaks.

    • Gooey0210@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      9 months ago

      Telegram came out a year earlier in that signal, and because immediately popular amongst young people and drug dealers in Russia

  • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Gonna have to disagree. Telegram is the ONLY chat app with ACTUALLY NATIVE code clients on desktop and mobile. Its the only one that isn’t website in a box trash that’s slow heavy and buggy. I use discord mostly because it’s where everyone is but i fucking hate everything about it and wish people would use telegram.

    If you think other chat apps don’t read/process metadata from your dms and such your an idiot. Nothing is safe short of self hosted matrix with full E2E encryption or similar and ain’t nobody doing that.

    • Im_old@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Nothing is safe short of self hosted matrix with full E2E encryption or similar and ain’t nobody doing that.

      Well, I’m doing that. But I’m nobody, so I guess your point still stands 😅

      But also, I don’t judge the chats mainly by their client, but the protocol. Telegram is not open and so can’t be audited properly, that’s my concern.