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by dgellow 23 days ago
Telegram is fairly common in Western Europe
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thejackgoode 23 days ago
.. which is a worse option for different reasons than WhatsApp
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k4rli 23 days ago
Okay, what are the reasons? It's difficult to see how Meta is in any way more trustworthy than the country which Telegram is from. I trust TG secret chats much more than Whatsapp's supposed e2e.
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yurishimo 23 days ago
It does have a nice Bot API though. For building personal stuff or just sharing between friends, the risks can be mitigated (imo).
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dgellow 23 days ago
It also has the best cross-platform chat UX since pretty much forever, and just a generally really well polished interface.
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