FSNotes: sorry bud, I’m going to come up with bad excuses instead.
Telegram was always super shady. Why do people use it instead of f.e. Signal?
Not based in the US is one.
Wake me up when Signal can actually share the location, esp. live location, and not just a static maps screenshot with a Google Maps URL.
That… seems like a bad thing. Why do you want that as a feature?
In addition to finding friends, it’s nice to see your partner making progress home if they’re driving/walking in poor weather.
There’s a million apps out there which you can install to let you see your partner’s location if you really need realtime telemetry to help salve your anxiety - why can’t you use one of those, instead of introducing a huge privacy flaw into a totally unrelated messaging service?
Seriously this is about a messaging app being aligned to the FSB, and you’re arguing that letting it know your partner’s location while they’re particularly vulnerable is somehow a desirable feature??
No, I’m not talking about Telegram, just location sharing as a general feature. And if you already have a chat app you share your secrets on, why wouldn’t you also trust it with your location. Sounds better than introducing yet another company’s app to sniff on you.
When you have actual friends and you want tomeet up, just share the live location for 15 minutes, walk towards each other and you can get live updates to see where both are.
No, all my friends are capable of finding each other without having to rely on an app to do it for them.
I’ll rely on the good old classic “hey lets go to X at Y time.” If X is large enough of an area then “we’ll meet up at Z (probably the snack bar knowing me.)”
that is certainly the way, people above are too spoiled by the technology it seems
That requires paying Google maps for their services. I don’t know how their running costs and budget work.
Signal have tons of money from selling proprietary licenses of the Signal code base to Meta (used by WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger), Google, and Microsoft.
All these partnerships were announced on Signal’s own blog, in case you don’t believe it.
Because there is nobody who has signal, and everyone is using telegram. I could switch to signal, but there is nobody to chat with. Telegram users and group chat owners wouldnt switch to signal, because they dont care, and nobody else in chat does so. So unless telegram will be legally banned by government, nobody is going to do anything about using it.
It started pretty fine actually.
But nowadays I just love the API and my bot that’s wired into my smart-home.
worst case that means FSB can control your home 😆
I’ve had it installed for a while. Didn’t use it much, but it was fun to see the pop ups from people out of address book joining telegram.
There were some usual suspects of kind of ‘sceptical’ folk, but also some surprises like my aunt.
The novelty wore off quickly though
It’s a lot easier to get a telegram account. I use telegram for its API and automated notifications, not impossible to do that with signal, but difficult to the point of serious impracticality. Telegram groups also don’t really have anything that compares with Signal.
For person to person communication, its signal every time though.
Not an excuse but Telegram is pretty, and full of colors and animations. Signal is ugly (which is a feature for a small number of users).
But yes it’s shady since their custom encryption is weak and they hold the keys.
nah both are ugly, but out of the messengers I have tried only telegram and whatsapp have the problem of randos adding me to crypto scam chat groups without any option to decline before it starts pinging me with notifications.
you want to go into settings > privacy > invites > change to my contacts
that will stop the random channel invites
