vanidian1@lemmy.world to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · edit-219 hours ago⚠️ [Important] Ukrainians should AVOID USING Telegram. There is big evidence that Telegram is linked to the FSB ⚠️ www.occrp.orgexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1175arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1170arrow-down1external-link⚠️ [Important] Ukrainians should AVOID USING Telegram. There is big evidence that Telegram is linked to the FSB ⚠️ www.occrp.orgvanidian1@lemmy.world to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · edit-219 hours agomessage-square30fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-square6nk06@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down2·edit-218 hours agoNot an excuse but Telegram is pretty, and full of colors and animations. Signal is ugly (which is a feature for a small number of users). But yes it’s shady since their custom encryption is weak and they hold the keys.
minus-squareGrass@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·17 hours agonah both are ugly, but out of the messengers I have tried only telegram and whatsapp have the problem of randos adding me to crypto scam chat groups without any option to decline before it starts pinging me with notifications.
minus-squareikt@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·12 hours agoyou want to go into settings > privacy > invites > change to my contacts that will stop the random channel invites
Not an excuse but Telegram is pretty, and full of colors and animations. Signal is ugly (which is a feature for a small number of users).
But yes it’s shady since their custom encryption is weak and they hold the keys.
nah both are ugly, but out of the messengers I have tried only telegram and whatsapp have the problem of randos adding me to crypto scam chat groups without any option to decline before it starts pinging me with notifications.
you want to go into settings > privacy > invites > change to my contacts
that will stop the random channel invites