Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat - eviltoast
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      1 year ago

      Why there is always the guy that tell others what to do? People should use what’s best for them, be it IM apps, browser, OS, whatever.

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        1 year ago

        These people also don’t live in the real world. “Hey buddy, I know all your friends are using this chat service, but just stop using it and move to this barebones, extensively complex to setup service and everyone will follow suit, trust me”

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          Well you can start using Matrix and still talk to your contacts on all centralized platforms via Matrix bridges so it’s really easy to move to that. You will at least remove mobile apps trackers from your life and already start gaining extra privacy for every contact that does move to Matrix afterwards

          Also, it’s not at all complex to start using, like all things you download an app and create an account (I can suggest Element or Beeper)

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        Because you’re on Lemmy and people here care about privacy, so my comment was a reminder and an advice, not a rule. You do you

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          1 year ago

          If they already care about privacy, they don’t need your reminders/advice (or they don’t care). Recommending/“reminding” what to use/avoid, without even being asked, is both arrogant and annoying.

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            1 year ago

            I learnt about all of that here on Lemmy. I think it’s beneficial to talk on a social media platform, and have discussions

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        1 year ago

        Depends on how dogmatic you want to get. Signal gets a passing grade from nearly all privacy focused groups, including the EFF.

        Of course it has centralized control, and if they really wanted to, they could push out a change that creates huge privacy and security problems, but as a not for profit, they really have no incentive to do anything nefarious.

        https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/eff-award-winner-signal-foundation

        If you truly want to have 100% security, you need to go to school for a decade, learn how the latest encryption and security works, create your own ecosystem, and have zero bugs or problems.

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        1 year ago

        It’s centralized. And like all US based companies they have to conply to Patriot Act and Cloud Act, meaning US government agencies have everything not encrypted (dynamic map of all messages and social links).

        Plus Signal has been founded by the CIA organisms (indirectly), it’s really shady

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        1 year ago

        Session is the only one that comes to mind but they did such an overkill when it comes to privacy and security application is downright unusable.