I was a user on Telegram from India.
Telegram is not sending text messages because I don’t have a premium account. And many features are locked in premium.
Currently, Telegram doesn’t allow users to create or log in to accounts via third-party apps. Also, I need an official telegram (a must from the Play Store). (Not even the apk from their own website.) To receive a login code.
Do you guys ever feel that telegram has become so much worse?
Nobody privacy in mind should ever use it in India since Telegram had agreed to comply PM’s surveillance policy.
I’m not paying for Telegram and I haven’t noticed missing out anywhere because of it. I’m using the APK file instead of the Play Store version because the latter censors Russian media channels (and I hate censorship). I wasn’t even aware there were premium accounts.
I’m in 2 dozen channels, have a few friends who mainly use Telegram instead of the competitors and I haven’t noticed a single issue, except for their homegrown encryption scheme.
I’ve never used Telegram until recently. I keep receiving spam on it all the time.
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I’ll have to check
Edit: everything is set so only my contacts can contact me. But I still get random messages.
Maybe because they already have your phone number.
I’d be very surprised.
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From random users. Maybe. I’m not to familiar with Telegram and honestly I don’t know a lot of people on that platform so I barely ever use it except to block users lol
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Last time I checked, the secret chats had some severe downsides that make them unusable as normal chats.
And if you want to bring open-source to the conversation: Signal is AGPL licensed, both the apps and backend. Not that it matters because of the E2E encryption.
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One downside is that secret chats are mobile-only. Not supported at all on PCs and laptops, with the official client at least.
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Telegram is not sending text messages because I don’t have a premium account.
Did they say that on the UI? Or why do you think that? I don’t think that’s the cause.
And many features are locked in premium.
Sure, there are a few new features that were only added for premium users, but I don’t know about any that was available to everyone and then became premium only. Or am I wrong?
Do you guys ever feel that telegram has become so much worse?
Well, about that. While I don’t think the above concerns are valid, in the last few years telegram has did things and durov made such announcements that are at least weird, but actually concerning, and don’t make me trust them more with their motives.
Right now I’m waiting for Element’s technical upgrade of Matrix.
Yeah. They say it on the UI.
That’s very weird. You are trying to message an average account, right? Could you please upload a screenshot (with sensitive into redacted of course), do I can see what’s the problem? Maybe it’s just a misunderstanding.
Oh, so they are not requiring premium for sending messages to a specific user, but for recovering an account with an inaccessible email address?
Or why do they want to reset the email through SMS?Who knows ? Everything is meaningless…
Telegram doesn’t have proper E2E encryption, so why are you using it for text messages at all? Asking this in privacy seems a bit weird to me.
The secret chats are E2EE. And I am not using it to send text messages. I am saying that Telegram is not sending me a text message login code because I do not have a premium account.
