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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Doing use Telegram, let alone pay for it. So many red flags with Telegram.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Feel free to list them - with evidence and not just prejudice...?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No end-to-end encryption by default, you have to explicitly start a secret chat. That means that instead of it all being encrypted noise, secret chats stand out.
Servers are not open source (last time I checked). Why not? Seriously, why not?
Admittedly, not much of an issue any more, but in the beginning they had horrible security (so did WhatsApp until Facebook threw some competent engineers at the problem)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There's end-to-end encryption. It's fine that you can chose what needs to be private, and what doesn't need to be.

There could be several reasons as to why the servers are not OS. Why do you need that part to be OS? Seriously, why?

Oh, so your problem with Telegram is, that it had some issues in the past, just like EVERY other app in the beginning? Nice one. :-)

So, let's summarize.

You lie, and say that there's no end-to-end encryption when there is.
It would be preferable to have OS servers, but it's not a major issue, since everything else is.
You have an issue with something in "Back to the Future"... Which is no longer an issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Woot?! (not op),

He said "no e2e by default" which is true. Straw man/missrepresentation
You post on the fediverse, which is decentral - why shouldn't you want this for telegram too? Open source server would allow to check / trust code, host your own, be more resilient against central attacks/malicious intend. Also you just waved it away saying it is not a biggy - maybe to you.
Last time I checked telegram still has major trust issues for me. No way to know how much governments are involved, code is not independently checked for security (happy to be proven wrong on especially the last one)

Its totally fine that you like telegram, but you can do that while acknowledging others preferences