Hmm… A few oddities actually, more nuances in usability than functionality. Maybe I’m just being pedantic as a UXD.
Like when tapping reply, the input dialogue doesn’t always display, despite being active.
Also I think maybe it’s just the target that are too small for precise navigation or functionality. Things like the heart icon, emojis, profile icon, etc.
All the district communication groups in my area are moving to telegram from whatsapp. People are scared of their privacy. They obviously did not know this was happening way before whatsapp put it in a document. They also do not realise that telegram is not as safe as they think.
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Interesting. I downloaded both telegram and signal but haven’t actually opened them yet. Lazy me.
I see tons of my contacts flocking to Telegram now. At least 20 per day. I chuckle softly that people are now concerned about the Facebook / WhatsApp data sharing.
I have been dragged kicking and screaming to both, I don’t know about people these days
Morning people of the palace
Ja, I wonder how people landed on Telegram, where your unencrypted messages are stored on the Telegram servers…
Sheep. Nowhere is really safe. I see people post banking details, company procedures and personal crap on whatsapp/telegram and I wonder at how stupid they are. Really, anything you say while connected can be seen by anyone who knows how to look for it.
No wonder our company sec expert refuses to use a smartphone and uses only linux.
Personally, I don’t really care, I will use whatever to get the info I need, I most definitely will never post anything personal/financial on these things.
That is the point, be clever not stupid but people are sheeple…
aka idiots abound
Do you have a source for this?
Suffering from reverse gamers guilt right now. Got nice games to play, just don’t feel like playing them, watching series/reading to relax instead. Weird how I now feel guilty for not playing.
It is almost as if not playing is making feel less like a gamer and thus losing something I have always identified with.
We did that the whole week, last night was the first time I even gamed! And that lasted about an hour and then I went back to reading.
Not a great one, unfortunately, thanks to Chrome on Android’s horrible history throwing out the one I had yesterday… But I found a bunch of articles published recently summarizing Whatsapp vs. Signal vs. Telegram.
https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/techook/whatsapp-alternatives-signal-telegram-viber-faq-and-features-7138298/ has a cute little table in the middle.
https://www.slant.co/versus/1989/4568/~signal_vs_telegram is generally trustworthy for facts, and allows the reader the opportunity to weigh all facts and make up their own mind.
https://fractionalciso.com/whatsapp-vs-signal-vs-telegram-security-in-2020/
From what I can see, end-to-end encryption only works on secret chats using Telegram’s own crypto algorithm. As far as I understand, this is a special, timed deletion message, only for one on one chats. Everyone else, no encryption. The default, opt-out chat method, used cloud sync, so aaaaaaaall the unencrypted chats are uploaded to the cloud server, unless the user opts out. I know people well enough to know very few will opt out, and a hamstrung encryption system like this is not acceptable in 2021, imo.
Ah, gotcha.
Woohoo! Looks like signal is the number 1 app for gardeners! 
As I understand it, Telegram does encrypt the chats it stores on its servers but it holds the keys to decrypt them.
To protect the data that is not covered by end-to-end encryption, Telegram uses a distributed infrastructure. Cloud chat data is stored in multiple data centers around the globe that are controlled by different legal entities spread across different jurisdictions. The relevant decryption keys are split into parts and are never kept in the same place as the data they protect. As a result, several court orders from different jurisdictions are required to force us to give up any data.
Thanks to this structure, we can ensure that no single government or block of like-minded countries can intrude on people’s privacy and freedom of expression. Telegram can be forced to give up data only if an issue is grave and universal enough to pass the scrutiny of several different legal systems around the world.
To this day, we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.
Thanks for the info.
It doesn’t particularly help me if the message I send someone down the block could be intercepted over my shitty router’s wifi vulnerability. End-to-end is the bare minimum in requirements, in my opinion.
I know OFM the local radio company uses telegram, as they request listeners to send any traffic updates and stuff like that via telegram.
Yeah, a few radio stations in South Africa have switched to using Telegram because it would cost them money to keep using WhatsApp. This happened two years ago or so, IIRC.
Yea see I have all three installed, and ironically 90% still uses whatsapp