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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why use either of those apps that you can't trust when Signal exists?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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