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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    tg premium user here, WTF? i tought telegram was privacy respectfull and pretty secure, what changed/happened? that’s not the first post i saw abt It. also, any alternatives? with almost same features and as many channels/groups as telegram ofc like don’t suggest me signal or Matrix nobody Is on that platforms…

    EDIT: lmao people Just downvoted me for asking… what a world

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    Why did Telegram get so popular in the privacy scene compared to Signal in the first place? To my knowledge Signal came out first and never had a history of breaches or leaks.

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      I assumed the popularity was not in the privacy scene, but rather in general population, just because of usability. It is just a more usable alternative to Whatsapp or VKontakte. It is pretty much the default messaging platform for young people like Whatsapp is for older ones.

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        in some circles yeah.

        In Germany it actually became famous because it allowed for huge groups and it’s where covid misinformation breeding grounds took off. People thought you were a nutjob if you had telegram lol.

        Which, while that is the dumbest reason to reject a chat app, at least meant that Signal was able to get more popular with uhhh smarter folks.

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    Is it even possible to get a telegram account these days? I heard their SMS service was down or something making it impossible to sign up and they don’t support email.

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      Stop it with the creative commons link in your comments.

      Also, there is nothing wrong with Telegram logins or new accounts.

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          I get notifications of new contacts that join Telegram so it does. I don’t need to try it myself.

          And I don’t understand your cc link and your down votes speak for themselves so stop the silliness.

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            And I don’t understand your cc link and your down votes speak for themselves so stop the silliness.

            Do you fear what you don’t understand? “I don’t understand it, so stop”.

            And I don’t care about downvotes. Go on, downvote. It has no real life effect.

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