Some people say it’s really privacy-giving and that you should use it as a privacy alternative. Others say it’s alao on the big tech side. What’s going on with telegram, really?

  • majster@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    I don’t think that is disqualifying, because you can’t control what is running on someone’s else machine anyway. It’s centralization that is the problem.

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      3 days ago

      If it was impossible for the other side to read the content of the messages, I’d agree. Hence, why it is less problematic that Signals server software is closed source.

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          3 days ago

          That’s a signal client, not server. While I think there are reimplementations of the signal server that you can theoretically use, you’ll be bound to only communicating with people also connecting through that server (ie no federation)