• @[email protected]
    21•2 years ago

    Why make this post hard to search for by using an image, instead of directly asking which is more trustworthy between Telegram and Signal? It just makes it look like you’re sharing an article link.
    The question isn’t even really relevant, you can mistrust Signal and still use it because it’s made in such a way that even if the server operators were malicious, they could get little data out of you.
    Telegram has secret chats and already having to “toggle-on” your privacy undermines the privacy of the whole application because your profile is partially clear to the service, which leaves it open to make various inferences on you

  • Sha'ul
    5•2 years ago

    First choice is always talk on SimpleX, second is Signal/Molly for something easier, there is no other app that I use.

  • @[email protected]
    6•2 years ago

    1.- jami 2.- xmpp + omemo 3.- matrix 4.- signal

    It’s hard no one cares. Where I live everyone uses whatsapp, and unfortunately what comes closer, and still without enough users base is signal on my list, and it’s the last. Jami is distributed, which makes it best in class, and there are good efforts trying to make it not to steal the whole battery, as opposed to briar. I which more people were interested on not using centralized stuff, not even what has been called lately decentralized, which means centralized but with several central points (only if everyone self hosts it would be decentralized, which is not the case). Currently I use Jami and signal, though I’ve tried all those, plus briar, plus tox, even telegram…

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 years ago

      I’ve been using conversations with a friend for almost a year now, the only thing I find it lacking in is the reply feature, but other than that it works great!

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 years ago

        I think you are taking about reactions. Dino on the desktop already has them and they will come to conversations as well, if I am not mistaken.

  • umami_wasabi
    12•2 years ago

    Using signal but planning to switch. SimpleX and XMPP are my candidates.

  • @[email protected]
    8•2 years ago

    My friends are already on telegram, I don’t have to force change. I can make any chat more secure from the start. I am not using massive government level secrets anyhow. I mean, security is nice, but my cat photos, bad code, homegrown mint tea, and plans for the beach this coming summer are hardly a top secret problem anyway, I’m not planning a murder, I just don’t want meta or facebook using them for advertising. Telegram is good enough.

  • Fox Trenton
    9•2 years ago
    1. Session
    2. XMPP with OMEMO
    3. a Tox, if possible (no real asynch common)
    4. Matrix
    5. Signal
  • GadgeteerZAEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    Default Signal is better although Telegram has Secret Chat. I love thar Telegram let’s you use a username to connect to others without exposing your mobile number to contacts.

    But I have way more friends who actually use Telegram than Signal. No idea why although for many the massive community groups are used by a lot communities for staying in touch, as well as safety/security groups in communities.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 years ago

    If the team behind Session could finally get their shit together I wouldn’t use anything else.