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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Telegram is better than WhatsApp. At least it has a decent Linux client, and all clients are open source. WhatsApp has neither.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Unless you're constantly using secret chats all your data is stored in plain text... This is actually worse than WhatsApp

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe better client and more features. But Russians have full access to servers and messages. They could read whatever they want. It's a fact that proved during war that Russia started in Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

This is nonsense. The Founders of Telegram are exiles from Russia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You got an answer why it's not.