How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr
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Conservatives have spent months championing Telegram as an app that more closely aligns with their values than Signal.
  •  sqgl   ( @sqgl@beehaw.org ) 
    3•20 days ago

    Telegram group chats are unencrypted

    Not quite true. They are server-side encrypted, not end-to-end. Still bad and I had no idea until I looked it up just now (thanks to you).

    I use Gboard keyboard on my phone which undermines my Signal privacy. I could use my laptop instance of Signal to prevent leakage.