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Finally some good news from #Signal ๐Ÿฅณ (aboutsignal.com)
submitted 1 day ago by rajkopz@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They say they need to figure out how to counter/avoid spam/abuse first. And that makes a lot of sense to me. I mean, just look at Telegram (which is ironically going the opposite route nowadays).

[โ€“] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 7 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Telegram requires a phone number, last I checked, and Desktop needs to be signed in to from mobile. So the same as Signal for "Abuse Prevention" (TM)

And it's only good for connecting to bot networks to deliver... Questionable content.

Most of my torrents ceom from Telegram bots, now that sites keep getting taken down who hosted them.

As to actually using it?

Well, the only contacts I have are pirate bots, and that will never change.

Still more than I have on Signal, though ;)

[โ€“] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago

I don't believe Telegram desktop needed a mobile connection before and I used it for years and didn't use a mobile client. I mostly used it as a bridge client for IRC and Matrix as the client itself was superior if you didn't need privacy or encryption.

[โ€“] shaztopher@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

And yet I get tons of spam on telegram, and the only way to prevent it is to subscribe to Telegram Premium

[โ€“] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Telegram requires a phone number, last I checked

(which is ironically going the opposite route nowadays)

[โ€“] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Well, I was worried about losing contact with the bots when I cancel my phone service, but maybe I won't have to ;)

[โ€“] FG_3479@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

You can keep your number when switching networks.