It was a many months transition, and it’s finally done

Fun thing, you can actually make a backup of all* your messages, groups, contacts, etc. So before leaving you can have all of your data in case you need that one contact or something

The final red flag was as that allegedly Russian authorities were messing with people’s deleted messages. Not for the first time there are news that they could read, modify, delete, see location, and etc. Screw it, this is unsafe, I’m out.

Also, these days telegram is really at the state of a pile of garbage, bloated, buggy, and shady messenger.

  • Clot@lemm.ee
    27·
    9 months ago

    I never got with these russian authority claims. Telegram is not based in russia, sure its founders are born in russia but they have taken citizenship of France for a long time now, its based in saudi arabia. I never saw a single proof of them giving data to russian authorities, they were banned in russia for that iirc but eventually got unbanned due to mass adoption. At this point these russian claims just seem racism to me.

    • lorty@lemmy.ml
      16·
      9 months ago

      It’s the usual foreign fearmongering. It’s never phrased this way if the subject is a western company (even though we know they cooperate with the US government).

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
        6·
        9 months ago

        Specially since we know for a fact that Meta hands over any and all information the US government wants from all their apps.

    • Gooey0210@sh.itjust.worksOP
      4·
      9 months ago
      1. I never said that telegram collaborates with Russia (I don’t know if they really do, but tg is pretty insecure, and Russian govt is happy to crack it)
      2. They were banned in Russia until they realized why would they ban it if they can read it (unbanning of something in Russia is another sign of something shady going on)
      3. I’m Russian myself, so your gaslighting won’t work, also are you Russian or Slavic too? 🤣
      • Clot@lemm.ee
        9·
        9 months ago
        1. Show me the proof, don’t talk on hunches
        2. They really didn’t care, they are banned in Iran too which is their 3rd biggest market. They got unbanned because Russia failed to unban it, there are no cases known yet in which telegram handed over users data to Russian authorities https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN23P2DY/
        3. I am not Russian