What does Jow Forums think of telegram...

what does Jow Forums think of telegram? it seems like the sanest option between facebook messenger and generic secure messaging service no one uses

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>WhatsApp
>Wire
>Signal

>Wire

This is new to me, looks cool

Signal seems to be the gold standard but lacks some of the functionality of telegram.

I would be on board with telegram is it used open whisper instead of rolling their own but considering the frustrations it's caused the Russians it seems like it's doing ok.

I'm considering it because I haven't found a better alternative for situations where someone without a smart phone needs to communicate securely from their desktop to my phone with relative convenience. Signal is almost there but requires a smartphone even on the desktop.

It's for furries, that's why I use it

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Security is good, but it isn't a motivation for enough people to use more obscure apps just because of it. I find Telegram's apreoach much better thought of than Signal, Wire or other's because they offer security on top of plentiful features. Telegram allows messages of up to 1.5Gb; has an extremely useful self message app that serves as a simple cloud storage; allows channels for news, content creators (i have a friend who uses his telegram channel to notify his twitch followers without making his phone number public), shopping ect...; just werks, unlike riot.im or others that pester you to verify who you are contacting; and has discord's customizable emotes, but on a large enough size that you can actually see what they are. It is these kind of features that bring people over, and which are lacking in services such as wire, that is extremely barebones.

On top of that, I at least trust the group behind it, after being demanded their encryption keys by the russian gov (which prooves their encryption, even if not open source, must be somewhat good) they responded by moving over to Dubai, outside of both Russia and the US's area of influence. Pavel Durov, the guy behind the app even has a grudge on the russian gov, and has ties with Assange (who endorsed the app's encryption) and Snowden.

After having toyed with Wire (too barebones), Riot.im (too uncomfortable) and all the normie chats, I find myself going back to telegram, not only because of the privacy, but mostly because of how useful it is in comparison to the others.

Telegram is great. I trust the security and the apps run great. Plus if my data is going anywhere I'd prefer it to be in the hands of the ivans over the yanks

Wire is better desu, singal is also better since it uses non-meme encryption.

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