Telegram has worldwide servers and is based in Dubai. It was founded by two brothers trying to get around Russian censorship. Russia is one of the countries that has banned Telegram, funnily enough.
There is basically not an app in existence that isn't spying on you to some extent.
" It was founded by two brothers trying to get around Russian censorship" / "Russia is one of the countries that has banned Telegram, funnily enough." - seems like a good story to increase credibility but I ain't buying it. Why are their servers running closed source?
Signal is fully open-source. They really can't spy to any extent. If you're saying that about Signal you should really provide some info. Many many have tried to find anything shady about it and failed. Everything is in the open, it's open-source, fully. In contrast to Telegram which runs an open-source frontend but a closed source backend. Why do you think that is? Just think about it.
The whole story of russians fighting censoring, Russia banned it, and they run closed source. Put all of them together, what image does that really paint?
The shadiest thing is people here shilling you go on Telegram. And most are saying you go to fake channels, they say they belong to proeminent people yet they're fake. If this doesn't clue you in what's happening here....
I already provided you with a source on Dorsey shilling Signal last year. You can see on their wikipedia page that they're hosted by Google. I'm not accusing it of being a honeypot or anything, but I'm just cautious of it.
Does the fact that Telegram was banned from Russia because the owners wouldn't turn over user data to the Russian government make me suspicious? No, not really.
Dorsey has been encouraging people to use Signal since June (https://loomered.com/2020/06/10/jack-dorsey-instructs-users-to-move-riot-related-communications-to-signal-app/). Just susses me out.
Telegram has worldwide servers and is based in Dubai. It was founded by two brothers trying to get around Russian censorship. Russia is one of the countries that has banned Telegram, funnily enough.
There is basically not an app in existence that isn't spying on you to some extent.
" It was founded by two brothers trying to get around Russian censorship" / "Russia is one of the countries that has banned Telegram, funnily enough." - seems like a good story to increase credibility but I ain't buying it. Why are their servers running closed source? Signal is fully open-source. They really can't spy to any extent. If you're saying that about Signal you should really provide some info. Many many have tried to find anything shady about it and failed. Everything is in the open, it's open-source, fully. In contrast to Telegram which runs an open-source frontend but a closed source backend. Why do you think that is? Just think about it. The whole story of russians fighting censoring, Russia banned it, and they run closed source. Put all of them together, what image does that really paint? The shadiest thing is people here shilling you go on Telegram. And most are saying you go to fake channels, they say they belong to proeminent people yet they're fake. If this doesn't clue you in what's happening here....
I already provided you with a source on Dorsey shilling Signal last year. You can see on their wikipedia page that they're hosted by Google. I'm not accusing it of being a honeypot or anything, but I'm just cautious of it.
Does the fact that Telegram was banned from Russia because the owners wouldn't turn over user data to the Russian government make me suspicious? No, not really.
No one on here told me to go on Telegram.