Ukrainians are some of the bravest people I know.
To the extent that you can, do not use Telegram. Telegram is owned by a single person. This man is a fucking liar.
Telegram infrastructure is linked to the FSB.
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/telegram-the-fsb-and-the-man-in-the-middle
Signal is more secure and owned by a nonprofit. The founder of Signal is a professional cryptographer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike
Signal delivers end-to-end encryption by default and collects almost no data.
it got big in people’s minds earlier. my experience over the last 5 years has been that the only people still using telegram are fascists and cishet eastern europeans. queer folks in eastern europe mostly moved to signal (again. this is my experience. it’s purely anecdotal)
And furries. For some reason furries are all over telegram.
noted! wonder why they’re not on signal? seems like with how common queer identities are in the furry community there’d be more desire to avoid a platform with russian ties
All my weed dealers use it where I am, so I think of it only as a drug app.
Unfortunately the vr pirates that crack the games I want to try only use telegram… So I have to use it to get their releases, but they prob fit the categories you listed…
nah for sure. there’s a lot that goes on on telegram. just don’t put anything that incriminates you on it