I’m from Mexico, and the most used chat application is WhatsApp. It’s used for EVERYTHING. I use Telegram only for contacting my family members (both my parents and my brother). They also use it only for this family chat. All my (and their) contacts use WhatsApp instead.

Now with the news that Telegram will collaborate with Twitter, I feel that I should delete it. Not that Zuck is any better than Musk, but still…

Also I don’t think it’s worth the effort to teach my parents yet another messaging app, like signal.

  • hosseinEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Signal just doesn’t feel like it’s iterating fast enough.

    Development is always a lot harder when you need to consider all the privacy aspects. When you don’t, you can be Telegram and give fancy features real fast.

    you can bet there’s a back door in there

    I mean you can educate yourself about cryptography and find the “backdoor”, the source code is out there for both the server and the client. And I assure you there are a lot of people in academia who would love to do that and get lots of citations, but no one has ever done so, so maybe there is none? That is if we don’t consider all the security audit commisioned by Signal itself on its app/server.