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Signal require a phone number, a nogo for real privacy.
I believe Telegram requires a phone number, too.
Hi, German here. How about not storing any information at all? Nothing to give, problem solved. Just like Signal. I seriously don’t understand why people use Telegram instead of Signal. Any reason! The app doesn’t solve any privacy problem, default chats are unencrypted, keeps personal info. App should be dead already or turned into a dating app because it’s clearly not seriously privacy fucused.
Channels, Groups, it’s overall way better. But true, per default not as secure. Supports secure chats, that are secure.
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To effectively capture discord usage telegram should add Group groups , that is to allow user to create an Organizations with some channels and groups. Also some kind of shared access policy. Could even be a pro feature.
Desktop client already has it, it's called 'folders'.
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I remember lots of documentations on TV and interviews with social scientists that emphasize that the Covid protests in Germany are weirdly originating from a very broad spectrum, with lots of alternative and esoteric groups, which aren't right wing at all. The Verfassungsschutz even had to invent a new category: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/verfassungsschutz-querdenke... Some examples of mainstream media that em…
I actually grew up with esoterics due to my mom. The major problem is, that they don't accept facts that are verifiable by scientific means. They think everything is subjective and therefore everything you can think of is somehow true. This makes them especially perceptible to propaganda efforts, which is why there is a distinct brown flavor to many esoteric practices and theories. They may not be considered right-wi…
https://twitter.com/martinkulldorff/status/15645903371375493... The look at Great Barrington Declaration. Then look at what the vaccines were promised to do by the authorities and politicians in power, and what the outcome truly was.
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To effectively capture discord usage telegram should add Group groups , that is to allow user to create an Organizations with some channels and groups. Also some kind of shared access policy. Could even be a pro feature.
I specifically like Telegram because it doesn't have group groups =)
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I remember lots of documentations on TV and interviews with social scientists that emphasize that the Covid protests in Germany are weirdly originating from a very broad spectrum, with lots of alternative and esoteric groups, which aren't right wing at all. The Verfassungsschutz even had to invent a new category: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/verfassungsschutz-querdenke... Some examples of mainstream media that em…
I also remember analysis that this broad spectrum was circumvented, and heavily influenced by the far right.
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To some degree you can trust them, as data request to Signal have been through the court systems which is public. You can actually look up and see what data they have turned over after receiving court orders to do so.
Would a secret CIA subsidiary hand over data for a routine civilian court request? If anything not doing so would make their covert surveillance tool even more trustworthy and effective.
* Time of account creation
* Date of the account’s last connection to Signal servers.
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Signal require a phone number, a nogo for real privacy.
I believe Telegram requires a phone number, too.
For a lot of people, Telegram does a good job of being "less evil than Facebook Messenger", and private in ways that matter to them. I'm more worried about some nutcase from a video game meetup group getting hold of my phone number than I am law enforcement finding out I was in that video game group in the first place.
I have a Matrix server and an XMPP server for 'truly private' communication anyway.
Sadly I think that it is the slippery slope for Telegram. Instead of the spirit of privacy first, they start to concede little by little for commercial interests. First it is just the IP and phone number. Then, it will be extended to contacts. Because, why not, that can be useful also for "terrorist investigations". Then it will be chat history,because it makes sense, the police has a warrant... And telegram is techn…
Slippery slopes are a logical fallacy for a reason. We live in a society, I don’t see how giving out basic information to law enforcement with a court order is somehow a fault of the company - first of all, your mobile service provider knows orders of magnitude more info on you (and quite likely sells it as well), second of all, your employer will do the same without a second thought as well as your bank, etc.