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Any good Telegram alternative? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I tried SimpleX but the VPN kill switch on my phone prevents syncing with my computer.

I use telegram primarily as a note taking app with sync features.

Occasionally I send files to friends, so having easy set up for tech illiterate would be great.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Signal is not available for Android tablets, which was a deal breaker when I tried to move my family off Telegram.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tablets can't run mobile apps?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Signal needs a phone number

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

which does not need to be in the tablet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It does. The Signal app for Android does not support being a secondary device. It must be the primary device with a phone number.

In addition, whatever Play Store settings they use excluded all of our tablets, even the one that had a SIM. Manually installing the APK worked for this case, but that didn't really solve our problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It does. The Signal app for Android does not support being a secondary device. It must be the primary device with a phone number.

do you mean that it does not have a prompt for the SMS code anymore, and it reads the code only from the received SMS?

In addition, whatever Play Store settings they use excluded all of our tablets, even the one that had a SIM

that's a weird choice, I thought a main goal of them was user freedom

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Don't you guys have phones?"

Also, I htought 99% of tablets connect to the mobile network using a SIMcard, but even if you rely only on wifi, see my previous quote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Nope

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

What do you mean? Modern Android apps work on all kinds of devices. Maybe the Android version on the tablet is too old?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is in fact available for tablets

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Only iPads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

And and device running Android