The number of data requests fulfilled by Telegram skyrocketed, with the company providing data to U.S. authorities on 2,253 users last year.
  • atro_city
    16•3 days ago

    Signal is getting better. Maybe someday they’ll support Telegram’s features like pinning messages and large rooms. But they are a good alternative already if all you want to do is chat and share memes.

  • @arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21•3 days ago

    I still don’t understand why people would use services that require a phone number

    • @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13•3 days ago

      Most people don’t care. And that’s fine, they don’t have a reason to. There’s a lot of other things that are probably a higher priority for them.

      Bigger question is if you’re going to be doing things that are in any way considered shady or bad, why would you not take any precautions?

      • @TheObviousSolution@lemm.eeEnglish
        20•3 days ago

        They do have to, we are literally living the era of Cambridge Analyticas and troll factories that proves why. Imagine tying your phone number to Twitter’s app just to be classified as a troublemaker and persecuted in things like job searches just for disagreeing with Musk, it’s closer to reality than you think.

    • @ButtermilkBiscuit@lemm.eeEnglish
      8•3 days ago

      You can sign up and use a fragment number. Requires you paying in the telegram crypto TON, then registering that number during account sign up. It’s not a real phone number and can’t do sms or be used with other service, but it will get on you telegram without giving up your real number.

    • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1•2 days ago

      You have to be on at least some, right? I’m pretty hardcore about the hacker lifestyle and I still need to be able to open a new email account, get certain government services (although I guess most will do everything by snail mail) or communicate with certain businesses.

      There’s no good reason for a messaging service to work based on them, though, you’re right. Signal I’m looking at you as well.

  • Soulifix
    -33•3 days ago

    Shitty criminals shouldn’t be protected, end of story.

    • @Lowpast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17•2 days ago

      Ahh yes, the “i have nothing to hide why do I need privacy” argument.

      Do you close your curtains or lower the blinds? Lock your front door? You must be a criminal.

      • @Scolding7300@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5•2 days ago
        • if you don’t that’s fine, but then your neighbor, friend, coworker might have and you’re causing them to jump through surveillance hoops
        • legal/illegal != moral
      • Soulifix
        -20•2 days ago

        Yeah, I pirate. Biiiiiiiig fucking deal!

        But am I fucking going around on Telegram in child abuse or trafficking rings or some other shit? Am I part of the child pornography ring or some other shit? Get the fuck real, you moron.

        • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          14•2 days ago

          Ooh, that’s spicier than even I meant. It’s illegal to drink in Saudi, it’s illegal to criticise Kim Jung Un in NK.

          They absolutely could ruin your life for that shit if they wanted.