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Whatsapp > Telegram tho, Telegram isn't encrypted by default which means someone can read your messages on the servers. This not being made clear and having to open a "secret chat" to make the user gullable is a big nono for me.
Also big tech wants you to think you are alone without them and you NEED them, i use Signal only these days, most of my friends have it.
They all have shitton of apps for every shit company which is ridiculous on its own, so what damage does one more app do them (is what i ask..)
The few ones still refusing i just call if i need smth.
This argument I have never found convincing. For all its faults Telegram is open source. Nothing made by Meta is. When they say "it's encypted and we promise there's no backdoor", we are taking their word for it. I am not a cynical person but I can think of a thousand companies more trustworthy than Meta.
If I really had to rank big tech companies in terms of trustworthiness I would be really hard pressed to find one to rank below Meta.
Any VC firm funded by US govt.
Meta is a mere symptom of the forever war economy. They all follow the exact same patterns of surveillance of peeps who can't be bothered to secure their privacy comms and finance.
Whistleblower recently revealed that employees at meta could (and do) just look at anyone's chat threads. So they absolutely have a backdoor.
it's encrypted trust our centralized servers is tarded.
Show me the efff'ing source code or it doesn't exist and doesn't belong on any serious person's list.