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It was a many months transition, and it's finally done

Fun thing, you can actually make a backup of all* your messages, groups, contacts, etc. So before leaving you can have all of your data in case you need that one contact or something

The final red flag was as that allegedly Russian authorities were messing with people's deleted messages. Not for the first time there are news that they could read, modify, delete, see location, and etc. Screw it, this is unsafe, I'm out.

Also, these days telegram is really at the state of a pile of garbage, bloated, buggy, and shady messenger.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Security is a spectrum. Telegram has never been the most secure alternative, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have any security.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

From my first link

The safest way to use Telegram would be not to. However, if you have no other choice, the best approach would be to use a clean burner phone to communicate with another clean burner phone. Change them regularly.

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In short, for better protection, use anything else.