rych wrote: ↑16 Jun 2024, 11:05
People are more forgiving to WhatsApp about that. Choosing between the two I prefer Telegram. These days I have to provide my phone number to a lot of services for secure login and authentication. I kind of wished I didn't have to though, but it's standard and I do need to identify myself, it's in my interests and no one else will have access to my phone.
From the point of view of functionality, certainly telegram is better than whatsapp, without a shadow of a doubt.
however, the shift from platforms that allowed anonymity to platforms that prohibited it in my opinion enabled the achievement of control by leveraging convenience (which could be achieved anyway) and people's need for protagonism.
Now we stay on these platforms somewhat because of the coercion of exclusivity.
however I feel like reminding that messages on telegram messages are sent unencrypted and that encrypted messages were never implemented for the linux client.
Just because I like to be controversial, they are now pushing to make login keys something that "for security issues" is best saved in some device forgetting that a password is secure because only we know it and it cannot be extracted from our brains, while a device that contains the password can always be stolen.