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Why didn't you recommend signal?
Signal lost all credibility with their cryptobro bullshit
I don't believe they lost any credibility with this, I thing people don't know about it for the most part, or don't care for the majority of the remaining part.
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What's in Telegram that you don't see in Signal? Honest question, I only use Signal rather than Telegram.
Signal has probably the worst UX of any messaging app. It also used to require sharing phone numbers to add contacts, which imo is already a privacy violation. Telegram is fast, responsive, gets frequent updates, has great group chat, tons of animated emojis, works flawlessly on all desktop and mobile platforms, has great support for media, bots, and a great API, allows edits and deleting messages for all users, and…
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Well of course, but this is a feature of Telegram. It's the only messaging app where messages are stored on the cloud. This of course has security implications, but also allows you to have a big number of chats without wasting your device memory like WhatsApp does, or having to delete old conversations, and allows you to access your chats from any device. By the way you can also set a password to log in from another…
> It's the only messaging app where messages are stored on the cloud. Besides Slack and Discord and Teams and whatever the heck Google has these days and iMessage and... I think you mean it's the only messaging app that purports to have a focus on security where messages are stored in the cloud, which is true, but also sus. There's a reason why none of the others are doing it that way, and Telegram isn't really claim…
Granted it can be clunky at times, but the properties are there and decentralised end to end encrypted messaging is quite and incredible thing. (Yes, Matrix nerds, it's not messaging per se it's really state replication, I know :))
I am null at cryptography but thie following does not sound too bad as a default tbh. And I think it is misleading to focus solely on e2ee and not mention the distributed aspect. https://telegram.org/faq#q-do-you-process-data-requests > To protect the data that is not covered by end-to-end encryption, Telegram uses a distributed infrastructure. Cloud chat data is stored in multiple data centers around the globe that…
Telegram offers end-to-end encryption in the same way that McDonalds offers salads.
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> It's the only messaging app where messages are stored on the cloud. Besides Slack and Discord and Teams and whatever the heck Google has these days and iMessage and... I think you mean it's the only messaging app that purports to have a focus on security where messages are stored in the cloud, which is true, but also sus. There's a reason why none of the others are doing it that way, and Telegram isn't really claim…
>it's just claiming that you can trust them more than you can trust the major messaging apps. All the cool kids in the block eliminated the need to trust the provider decades ago. PGP: 33 years ago, OTR 20 years ago, Signal 14 years ago.
Signal evangelicalism needs to halt, you mean the Whisper protocol.
Telegram offers end-to-end encryption in the same way that McDonalds offers salads.
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What's in Telegram that you don't see in Signal? Honest question, I only use Signal rather than Telegram.
Signal has probably the worst UX of any messaging app. It also used to require sharing phone numbers to add contacts, which imo is already a privacy violation. Telegram is fast, responsive, gets frequent updates, has great group chat, tons of animated emojis, works flawlessly on all desktop and mobile platforms, has great support for media, bots, and a great API, allows edits and deleting messages for all users, and…
I use both on desktop for different people and the desktop Signal client doesn’t hold up well in comparison. In some ways it feels more clunky than the iMessage ancestor iChat did 20 years ago.
Try the mud puddle test: log into your account on a new device using the password recovery flow. Can you see your old messages? If the answer is yes then law enforcement can too. https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/08/05/how-se...
Would love to see a side-by-side comparison of iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram on this.
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Anecdotal evidence, so take this with a grain of salt - I work with a bunch of people from Ukraine and almost all of them exclusively use Telegram to keep up with the news and family back home. From talking to them for a while, it's mostly because it's free, has excellent support for sync across multiple devices (including audio, video and other media), has support for proxies to circumvent any kind of blocking, publ…
> doesn't require any personal identifier Do they still not require ID when you buy a SIM card in Ukraine?