Many in the crypto and privacy community mistakenly trust Telegram because it’s “end to end encrypted”, but there are huge issues including not hiding the metadata, censorship, centralization, and phone numbers.
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    • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Yep, E2E isn’t sufficient to ignore it being made by Meta, I def still trust Telegram more

        • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Cause telegram has better UX, supports logging in on my 2 phones, can send uncompressed larger files, more appearance customization, etc

          I love Signal too but Telegram is also great

          • PeachMan@lemmy.one
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            1 year ago

            Fair enough, the features are nice. I just want people to know that they’re compromising on security by using Telegram. But if you don’t have any REAL reason to be paranoid, then you don’t really NEED to use Signal.

            • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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              1 year ago

              Ye that’s how i feel. I scarcely send anything that I’m truly worried about and when I do, I’ll use their Private Chats or Signal

              P.s. I also love Telegram stickers tbh. Silly I know but they’re great