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You may be offered a free premium Telegram subscription – but please don’t accept (archive.is)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Telegram is giving away FREE Premium subscriptions! All they need from you is to use your cell phone as a relay to text out their OTP codes! And the recipient of the OTP sees your phone number! What could POSSIBLY go wrong with this deal?

PLEASE don't use Telegram! I personally recommend Matrix as it's totally FOSS, you can self host, there are tons of front end clients to choose from. Or even use Signal. I have my own issues with Signal, the fact they don't allow third party clients, you can't self-host, they have a proprietary shim in their stack that only they know what it does, they were pushing crypto, etc, but at least Signal is better than this garbage.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago (6 children)

My wife knows that if she doesn't use Session, she needs to call me and hope I pick up. Granted, she only uses it with me, but that's already a win in my book.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

IDK, forcing someone to use a certain app to contact you seems a bit extreme, and something that could cause conflict in a relationship. But that's just me, I obviously don't know your situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Could be the case. But we agree that she doesn't have to use it if she doesn't want to, and I don't have to use any of the mainstream stuff if I don't want to. We trust each other to no end, to the point that our biometrics are in each other's devices, and we leave them laying around regularly. I can see how that could be a sure way to bring issues into a relationship, but thank God, that's not our case. As for other people, I couldn't care less. My kids have no access to devices yet (except their Linux PCs built by themselves), so all is great in my life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My girlfriend said she prefers it knowing I couldn’t get other girls to talk with me over XMPP 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Smart girl, haha!

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