Telegram, the popular messenger with 800 million monthly active users worldwide, is inching closer to adopting an ecosystem strategy that is reminiscent
Am also gonna stick with signal, eyeing up matrix. But what issues? The only reason i haven’t tested it out yet is none of my friends seem too keen on trying it.
For a lack of a better term: jank. Too much jank. For one instance, I have never seen in Whatsapp or Signal the phrase “unable to decrypt message”. I can deal with that personally, but >90% of the people I need to communicate to with messengers will drop a service and never look back if they see that.
I use it with many friends and it is super buggy.
Calls work only ok on browser version of Element, bugs in encryption are common where you cannot read a message, Synapse server is bloating the database and not clean after itself, etc.
It’s getting better month by month, but still can’t recommend for your friends that are not technical people into open source. Better wait to not discourage them now.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Telegram_in_Russia
“On 18 June 2020 Roskomnadzor lifted its ban on Telegram after it ‘agrees to help with extremism investigations’.”
That should be enough information. I’m on Signal, waiting for Matrix to perhaps stop sucking before I die of old age.
Am also gonna stick with signal, eyeing up matrix. But what issues? The only reason i haven’t tested it out yet is none of my friends seem too keen on trying it.
For a lack of a better term: jank. Too much jank. For one instance, I have never seen in Whatsapp or Signal the phrase “unable to decrypt message”. I can deal with that personally, but >90% of the people I need to communicate to with messengers will drop a service and never look back if they see that.
I use it with many friends and it is super buggy. Calls work only ok on browser version of Element, bugs in encryption are common where you cannot read a message, Synapse server is bloating the database and not clean after itself, etc.
It’s getting better month by month, but still can’t recommend for your friends that are not technical people into open source. Better wait to not discourage them now.