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submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

When you can't use secret chat at ALL on desktop, fuck no it isn't.

Assuming end-to-end encryption is what's meant in the question.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a step backwards from Whatsapp lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's still shit tho. Signal is better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

As is Sessions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can with Pidgin and purple-tdlib plugin for Telegram.

But then I'd ask the other person to use the same thing, and we'd both use OTR for encryption, not TG's bogus E2EE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

wow I haven't used Pidgin in like a decade