ShadowRebelAug 20, 2023

Telegram's "Privacy" is Bullshit (Video)

https://monero.town/post/355926

Telegram's "Privacy" is Bullshit (Video) - monero.town

Many in the crypto and privacy community mistakenly trust Telegram because it’s “end to end encrypted”, but there are huge issues including not hiding the metadata, censorship, centralization, and phone numbers. Send this video to your friend that asks why you won’t join: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-telegram-sucks/ [https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-telegram-sucks/]

Show threadpartizanAug 20, 2023
Thats why Element(Matrix) is the way. Ideally selfhosted+federated, but even the default matrix.org is much better than most other chat apps.
Show threadEngineerGamingAug 20, 2023
Why Matrix and not XMPP? XMPP is also flawed, but much less bloated, easier to selfhost and doesn’t have so many people being on central instance like matrix.org (there are other arguments as well).
Show threadregaliaAug 21, 2023
Because there’s not a single good app for XMPP and nobody uses it.
Show threadEngineerGaming
It does NOT cost money on F-Droid. You don’t even need to install the market itself, you can get the app from F-Droid’s website (though then you’d have to check for updates yourself). For me, it was a chance to get mom to F-droid:)
Aug 22, 2023 at 10:27amWeb