• ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Wait what? I thought Telegram pretty much was Discord but for people who prefer phones over computers.

    Wasn’t there also a controversy where some people believed that telegram was private and secure, but that only was for a very limited subset of their features?

    Disclaimer: I’ve only ever installed telegram once for one single person, but promptly removed it afterward for sending out messages to some of my contacts on its own, so I have no clue how it actually works. Feel free to correct or educate me.

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        It was a message along the lines of “Your friend Ekky has started using Telegram, say hello to them”.

        Not sure if it was a notification or a message, but that was very uncanny and definitely felt scammy and abusive. It’s not the first time I’ve seen an app behave this way, though usually the app asks first.

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      Wasn’t there also a controversy where some people believed that telegram was private and secure, but that only was for a very limited subset of their features?

      i think you’re thinking of how you have to go out of your way to start a “secret chat” for it to have the touted encryption. those “secret chats” are way less feature-rich than the standard ones though, which sucks ass

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      I thought Telegram pretty much was Discord but for people who prefer phones over computers.

      Not a bad way to look at it, although I think one-on-one messaging is much more common on Telegram compared to discord, which has its “communities” thing as its main use case.