It's not great if security is your main goal for organizing, but it has a better user experience than most chat apps. Especially if cross platform chatting is important to you.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand why people like it so much, I tried it and found the experience pretty bad. Signal is a million times better and easier to use, and Matrix isn't that hard to figure out either.

[–] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

I started using it about 8-9 years ago at this point, back when the options were FB messenger or whatsapp. Both were trash and limited in comparison.

I only use signal for work but I find the app clunky and unintuitive. Telegram, being a somewhat privacy nightmare, but not connected to a big data broker company, also gives me the ability to search through a decade of messages to find an old joke, a picture shared, etc.

Telegram is simple enough that I can tell my aging gen x parents and apathetic zoomer siblings to install it and there's nearly zero friction to them logging in and receiving messages. It solved the problem of being added to a new fucked up imessage groupchat every other week as an android user.

[–] guts@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Telegram is miles better in user experience than Signal.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hell no

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 7 months ago

I'll accept your opinion, regardless of how bad it is.