It was a many months transition, and it’s finally done

Fun thing, you can actually make a backup of all* your messages, groups, contacts, etc. So before leaving you can have all of your data in case you need that one contact or something

The final red flag was as that allegedly Russian authorities were messing with people’s deleted messages. Not for the first time there are news that they could read, modify, delete, see location, and etc. Screw it, this is unsafe, I’m out.

Also, these days telegram is really at the state of a pile of garbage, bloated, buggy, and shady messenger.

  • progettarsi
    312·
    9 months ago

    tg premium user here, WTF? i tought telegram was privacy respectfull and pretty secure, what changed/happened? that’s not the first post i saw abt It. also, any alternatives? with almost same features and as many channels/groups as telegram ofc like don’t suggest me signal or Matrix nobody Is on that platforms…

    EDIT: lmao people Just downvoted me for asking… what a world

    • LWD@lemm.ee
      222·
      9 months ago

      Telegram hasn’t been secure since basically day 1. IIRC it went something like

      Security experts: Never roll your own cryptography.
      Telegram: We rolled our own cryptography!
      Security experts: Don’t. And it’s broken.
      Telegram: uhhhh… We fixed it.
      Security experts: It still looks really bad. Stop it.
      Telegram: says nothing

      • myplacedk@lemmy.world
        51·
        9 months ago

        Security is a spectrum. Telegram has never been the most secure alternative, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have any security.

        • LWD@lemm.ee
          11·
          9 months ago

          From my first link

          The safest way to use Telegram would be not to. However, if you have no other choice, the best approach would be to use a clean burner phone to communicate with another clean burner phone. Change them regularly.

          …

          In short, for better protection, use anything else.

      • progettarsi
        31·
        9 months ago

        ye it’s like a social media that doesn’t spy on me and doesn’t have strange algos to feed me with shit. never used It as a chatting app

      • Gooey0210@sh.itjust.worksOP
        11·
        9 months ago

        Dude, are you even Russian yourself to claim this?

        As a Russian person, Russian oppositionist, and formerly a drug dealer, I can say that you wouldn’t use telegram for anything that needs security, since like the start of tg

        Just come to Russia, register with your name two Sim cards, create telegram accounts, and message yourself that you want to blow up Kremlin. You will have FSB standing behind your door very shortly

        For the very brave, no VPN, no secret chats, see ya

        Edit: this was your third comment on Lemmy, and only one post, so I really doubt that you will ever do something. Also, comparing tg and wa is so Durov

        • nivellian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          9 months ago

          Hi there, tbh I forgot what my comment was before I deleted it. You probably just answered yourself in this post :)

          But yeah for security I don’t prefer Telegram or any Android app and I use Telegram the most on Android because I like the way it is. No Secret Chat really, are you sure about that lol