https://soatok.blog/2024/05/14/its-time-for-furries-to-stop-using-telegram/

Edit: Oh yeah, DON’T USE SIGNAL. Use Matrix instead, offers the benefits of signal without the drawbacks of lack of sync and phone number requirements and is decentralized. The fact that everyone is going gaga for signal as “the BEST messaging app” should be a big red flag in and of itself, because hype trains like this aren’t organic, just saying.

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    3 months ago

    Why is it a terrible recommendation for a basic chat user? If by “basic chat” you mean SMS or iMessage, it is strictly superior

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      Sync, system support, hoops to jump through, potential loss of chat history, unreliability, lack of account based sign up (until recently?). So many reasons to not recommend it for people. To clarify though, SMS and iMessage are both so terrible I don’t consider them “options”. They’re defaults for people who have no interest in security or interoperability, which are both major important parts of a chat system imo.

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        3 months ago

        Sync

        Works fine for me.

        System support

        Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android, what more do you want?

        Hoops to jump through

        What hoops? I typed in my phone number and was good to go.

        potential loss of chat history

        You said that already. If the worst thing you can say about the messenger is that it doesn’t sync chat history to new devices, it’s probably a decent messenger.

        unreliability

        Genuinely what?

        lack of account based sign up

        Like I said, if were comparing it to messengers people are already using, like iMessage or RCM, this is a nonissue.