huh, so there's a #Telegram data breach of some sort and my details appear to be in it, although I have zero memory of ever using Telegram. I suppose it's possible that I briefly installed it as I /am/ likely to check secure & private messengers, but Telegram is actually neither of those things despite their claims.
So yeah, a bit confused that I'm in the list of compromised accounts on it but whatevs.
💬 Telegram: social media giant or the new ‘dark web’? | FT
“Telegram is going to really struggle to find advertisers willing to associate their brands with the large amount of toxic content on the platform,” says the Integrity Institute’s Allen, noting that advertisers have pulled millions of dollars from Elon Musk’s X for similar reasons. “The lack of integrity of the platform severely limits [Telegram’s] revenue possibilities.”
#Telegram likely soon to be designated as #VLOP under the #DSA, according to Bloomberg. EU Commission in direct talks with company about how to count number of monthly active users.
Erste die Medien berichten von einer drohenden Hochwassergefahr am Wochenende.
Erster Kommentar dazu in der Desinformationszentrale #Telegram: „ früher hat es auch schon viel geregnet“ und „die CO2-Gläubigen drehen schon wieder durch“
fuck #telegram why people think is secure? beats me, but here watch minute 7:16 https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=pjseaH7eX44 and STOP using telegram and whatsup!! :D use matrix or at least signal if your friends need something easy to use but matrix is the way.
so tired of #signal app. How can I criticize it when I’ve never used it I would like to use it. I would like to use it very much. However I don’t own a smart phone. Which means I can’t register a desktop app which intern means I can’t use signal as even trying to create a virtual I machine running, android to download the mobile app to register my desktop app. Which failed. I don’t care how much you improve it until you’re actually inclusive. Signal is not a good app. You might also want to think about who are the people they don’t have access to their own smart phone. Think about other ways for users to register without a smart phone please. (running macos desktop)
• I've actually had an easier time keeping up with Slack than in Slack itself
• Initially I ran clients side by side but Beeper updates just as fast and I've since stopped running most except for Discord which I use for calls
• Even so, it's great to run it in parallel to Discord, because it's easier to text chat in Beeper while in a video call
I have telegram because it was really easy to set up a bot and a bash script to send messages to it-basically my own little notifications app. But it’s also the only thing I use telegram for. What’s a good alternative? Free and open source preferred. Self hosting as well
Der Messenger #Telegram ist für eine sichere Kommunikation nicht geeignet - standardmäßig sind die Nachrichten nicht einmal Ende-zu-Ende verschlüsselt. Besser geeignet sind #Signal oder #Threema. Übrigens: Elon Musk ist das Paradebeispiel eines Trolls. Einfach ignorieren. 😉
“Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk” | @matthew_d_green
> Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, has recently been making a big conspiracy push to promote Telegram as more secure than Signal. This is like promoting ketchup as better for your car than synthetic motor oil. Telegram isn’t a secure messenger, full stop. That’s a choice Durov made.
Offenbar gibt es gerade eine sehr aggressive Kampagne durch um Aktivist:innen dazu zu bringen, von #Signal nach #Telegram zu wechseln. Es wird unterstellt, dass Signal nicht sicher sei.
Telegram ist grundsätzlich NICHT vollständig verschlüsselt. Die Betreiber haben Zugriff auf die Inhalte aller Gruppen, Kanäle und normalen Chats, wenn nicht ausdrücklich der sichere Chat gewählt wurde.
#ISW, May 8 assessment: "Reports indicate that there is an available open-source tool that allows people to search by specific coordinates for Telegram users who have enabled a certain location-sharing setting."
But of course there is. The russian-engineering, roll-your-own-crypto, cryptocoin-shilling, encrypted-but-not-encrypted messaging app to have a zero-day exploited privacy flaw exposing users' location? I can't imagine where such failures would come from.
Honestly have no idea why Telegram is popular with so many Plebs. There are so many reasons to not use Telegram (a centralized platform):
All the comm leaks, the false sense of security their copywriting suggests (not e2ee by default), banning users, collecting user metadata, bot access to your ID and metadata, storing your data on 3rd party servers...using their own proprietary e2ee protocol, MTProto with a history of security flaws, the list goes on and on...
I strongly suggest avoiding it if you value your privacy and security.
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