Greetings!
A friend of mine wants to be more secure and private in light of recent events in the USA.
They originally told me they were going to use telegram, in which I explained how Telegram is considered compromised, and Signal is far more secure to use.
But they want more detailed explanations then what I provided verbally. Please help me explain things better to them! ✨
I am going to forward this thread to them, so they can see all your responses! And if you can, please cite!
Thank you! ✨
Telegram for random public chatter/file storage(with password lock), talking to strangers without giving them your number. Signal for personal/private conversations.
Your device can handle 2 apps and don’t give them permissions willy nilly. Geez, every one of these posts just wants to start a flame war.
In Telegram, you never have to expose your phone number. If you like walking into traps then of course you can.
But can make minimal efforts to not be a degenerate avoiding this obvious easily avoidable trap.
How to avoid exposing your phone number
Make a group called
i'm not a complete utter idiot. Whenever you have a friend wanting to connect, make a group link, send it to them, have them join. After joining have them send a message in the group. Just, “Hi”. Nothing more. Less is more.Look for that message and click on the person’s name. You are now connected. Send them a personal message, “Hi!”.
You can also add them as a contact without sharing your phone number.
Your friend will probably be a degenerate and expose their phone number. Teach them how to go into settings to always hide it.
Try not to call them a degenerate, degenerates hate that.
Also try not to think of them as a degenerate, they will already know that and be proud of it and not understand why you don’t share their enthusiasm.
So control what thoughts you project into the ether. If you have to change the topic in your mind to something involving flowers singing birds and clouds.
Signal supports username based chatting.
Behind those usernames, are phone numbers (meaning real identities) stored in signal’s database.
As far as I know telegram requires a phone number too.
And the conversation was about “talking to strangers without giving them your number”, not without giving signal nor telegram your number.
There are far better privacy alternatives to both: matrix, xmpp, simplex all work well and don’t require phone numbers or US-based hosting.
Where do you want to place the goal post?
We talked about comparing 2 applications. Commenter wasn’t up-to-date and implied a falsehood, I corrected it as it is important for the discussion. Then you talk about something completely else and in context, implied a falsehood, I corrected that as it is important for the discussion. And now you are talking about something completely else again.
Please express your opinion. You can do it in this thread, even if it is off-topic, I don’t care, but please stop acting like you are responding to me.