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Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

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Re: Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

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Post by sitzkrieg »

lukan wrote: post #8
dangoodmanUT wrote: post #4

Telegram has always felt like the catch-up of the messenger apps. I don't know a single person who uses it.

Many do. But most use it as a forum software, or to send files, than as a messenger.

i use it for messaging and everyone else i know does too. "most"? any sources?

Re: Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

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Post by Semaphor »

Not a huge fan of Signal (phone number requirement [0], crypto push a while ago), but there are worlds between those two, and every time the Telegram CEO makes a post it looks more like a scam than before.

[0]: Yeah, might be changing or has already. Now, after ages.

Re: Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

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Post by billpcs »

dangoodmanUT wrote: post #4

Telegram has always felt like the catch-up of the messenger apps. I don't know a single person who uses it.

I use it since 2014 and have felt that it's very performant (more so than Signal or Whatsapp, Messenger, or Viber).

Also, it adds many useful features that other messengers didn't always have and many still don't have, for example Saved Messages, Scheduled Messages, Spoiler Messages, Reply to Message, message formatting (bold, monospace, etc), just to name a few off the top of my head.

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