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I'm from Mexico, and the most used chat application is WhatsApp. It's used for EVERYTHING. I use Telegram only for contacting my family members (both my parents and my brother). They also use it only for this family chat. All my (and their) contacts use WhatsApp instead.

Now with the news that Telegram will collaborate with Twitter, I feel that I should delete it. Not that Zuck is any better than Musk, but still...

Also I don't think it's worth the effort to teach my parents yet another messaging app, like signal.

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[โ€“] Jack_Burton@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Specially with all the recent scrutiny on it in the news, hackers are figuring out ways in.

I'm assuming you mean the US gov't debacle? It's already been proven that they were using a fork, not the genuine Signal app. The fork was built with a back door. As far as I'm aware (and please correct me if I'm wrong) Signal has yet to be hacked and is currently among the most secure options.

It's almost like the US gov't might benefit from convincing its citizens that the fully encrypted messaging app is dangerous so they should just go back to Whatsapp and Telegram.

[โ€“] ilmagico@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

From what I understand, there was no hack nor fork in the recent news about Signal, it was human error, somebody literally invited the wrong person to the chat ๐Ÿ™„

Signal is still secure.

[โ€“] Jack_Burton@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Haha yep inviting the wrong person was absolutely the big issue. I think I read something about it being an unofficial fork out of Israel though, but everything moves so fast these days it's hard to keep up

BS. The US govt actively tells people to use Signal. Take what you will from that.

And there was a recent report about groups and QR codes. And another about CDN. Look em up.