Telegrsm is not secure anymore. USA have all the keys of the encriptions of telegrsm.
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2025
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I won't be popular in this thread, but I don't fight this battle anymore. Telegram beats Signal in virtually every aspect of user experience. If a person is unlikely to be convinced that e2ee is worth taking all the UX hits, I don't try anymore.
I keep seeing this claim, but I may be too much of a computer nerd to notice when using them both. What does Telegram do better and how?
I may be too much of a computer nerd to notice when using them both
That's probably true of just about everyone on Lemmy.
What does Telegram do better and how?
User experience, like I said. How many less technically inclined people do you know who will understand why they have no message history in Signal after moving devices? Yes, they could have kept it if they'd had backups enabled and moved the archive over and restored from it, but it's too late now, their entire contact list has been notified that their safety number's changed (another aspect we get to attempt to explain). It's a bummer.
Message history is a valid point. Signal just announced they're fixing it.
Safety number change notifications are probably necessary to maintain Signal's high level of security. The above device linking improvements should make them less frequent, though I'll concede some might consider that a worse UX than an insecure chat with no such notifications.
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Does it though? I have used both and I vastly prefer my experience on signal. I don't really engage with the like, "communities" aspect of telegram though so perhaps thats what I'm missing?
Nope, see my reply to sibling for a more complete example
I can't see anyone else on this comment thread so I guess I must be defederated with whatever user you replied to