How does everything which has its origins in US is touched up with fairy duust while anything that may have a remote link with Russia is garbage?
Signal is garbage. They are riding on the coattails of marketing (and that's what investment money does)
2. Notifications in one platform is weird for me.
3. Video quality is extremely bad to the extent of unusable.
4. Completely agree with the lack of settings whether other users with my number can text/call me on Signal.
Also, the evidence that it's not end to end encrypted by default for many operations is out in the open.
I think it has more to do with the fact that there is no known reason for the organisation behind Telegram to provide it. It doesn’t make money from users, it has large operating and development costs, it keeps access to a lot of personal data without regulation, it is not a non-profit funded by donations and being open about their operation…
So most realistic hypotheses about that organization is that it’s shady. There are very few other possible explanations.
But people are deluded that it's as private as Signal or Matrix, which is laughable.
Nginx is currently at 1.21.0
Why wouldn't you care about your load balancer being so outdated? That's over 15 years.
There could be an explanation for this, but I'd have to put some unnecessary trust into it before I get the valid explanation. It is http and no https is offered on that server, which probably indicates that there's no need for TLS, that the communication is secure enough for it not to rely on TLS. But anyway...
This is a weird way to respond to someone using a metaphor to describe how an app makes them feel.
That's not a metaphor, though.
It seems like whenever telegram is brought up here, there's a lot of speculation about it not being trustworthy but no concrete evidence.
The client is open source. While not end to end encrypted by default, it shares that property with most messengers. E2E limits search-ability and other features so it's a tradeoff.
I have to wonder if part of why this is mostly brought up is due to the origin of the app being a group with a Russian nationality. That's pretty sad.
The app is damn good. The best messenger app I've used - much better than signal. I'm so disappointed by this attitude.