▲ | em-bee a day ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
telegram is the most user friendly chat out there. the only ones that compete in usability are wechat (yes, the chinese one) and, deltachat. signal just got a bit better by finally allowing me to hide my phone number. of all these, deltachat is the only one that doesn't require a smartphone and a phone number. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | eMPee584 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Telegram indeed does have excellent UX, speed and multi-device support.. as all clients are open source, there should be a (convoluted, rocky) way to port them to use the matrix protocol (an idea I've had a couple of months back).. or, instead of one-time porting, insert a protocol bridge running as sidecar in order to be able to keep in sync with upstream TG code (Pavel himself seems to be doing _immense_ amounts of coding on it).. Anyone up to the challenge? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | maqp a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>telegram is the most user friendly chat out there. Telegram is a walking time bomb with 900 million users' data waiting to be leaked from the servers. >and, deltachat. That must be why I've never heard of anyone using it. >deltachat is the only one that doesn't require a smartphone and a phone number. It leaks the IP-address to the server, which by default (defaults matter) is nine.testrun.org. That server can amass metadata about users conversing, and any government entity that comes knocking can look at TelCo records about to which user the IP-addr was assigned at the time. If you're going to try to address metadata privacy against service provider, you're going to have address it properly, and DeltaChat isn't the one at that point. Neither is Signal. You'll want Cwtch for that. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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