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What are the reasons to use Signal over Telegram (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Greetings!

A friend of mine wants to be more secure and private in light of recent events in the USA.

They originally told me they were going to use telegram, in which I explained how Telegram is considered compromised, and Signal is far more secure to use.

But they want more detailed explanations then what I provided verbally. Please help me explain things better to them! ✨

I am going to forward this thread to them, so they can see all your responses! And if you can, please cite!

Thank you! ✨

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

I won't be popular in this thread, but I don't fight this battle anymore. Telegram beats Signal in virtually every aspect of user experience. If a person is unlikely to be convinced that e2ee is worth taking all the UX hits, I don't try anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Does it though? I have used both and I vastly prefer my experience on signal. I don't really engage with the like, "communities" aspect of telegram though so perhaps thats what I'm missing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Nope, see my reply to sibling for a more complete example

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

I can't see anyone else on this comment thread so I guess I must be defederated with whatever user you replied to

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

I keep seeing this claim, but I may be too much of a computer nerd to notice when using them both. What does Telegram do better and how?

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

I may be too much of a computer nerd to notice when using them both

That's probably true of just about everyone on Lemmy.

What does Telegram do better and how?

User experience, like I said. How many less technically inclined people do you know who will understand why they have no message history in Signal after moving devices? Yes, they could have kept it if they'd had backups enabled and moved the archive over and restored from it, but it's too late now, their entire contact list has been notified that their safety number's changed (another aspect we get to attempt to explain). It's a bummer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Message history is a valid point. Signal just announced they're fixing it.

Safety number change notifications are probably necessary to maintain Signal's high level of security. The above device linking improvements should make them less frequent, though I'll concede some might consider that a worse UX than an insecure chat with no such notifications.