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Re:Telegram Desktop reaches version 1.0 by leshow on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:21AM (#13382851)
if you dont like whatsapp you can use Signal. it's the open source software that was integrated into whatsapp and is the basis of it's e2e encryption.

both are better options than telegram.

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Re:Telegram Desktop reaches version 1.0 by lucb1e on Thursday January 12, 2017 @03:00PM (#13385578)
> if you dont like whatsapp you can use Signal

Yeah that doesn't work at all on my phone because it requires me to use Google Cloud Messaging (Google stuff on my phone is firewalled). You can't just connect to the Signal servers -- or your own for that matter -- and be done with it, you need to use Google servers.

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