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What's your opinion on telegram from a foss and privacy perspective? (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dontblink@feddit.it to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I see i can find a foss version on f-droid, and that's something not a lot of social networks can have, i don't really like all the crypto bullshit and ads testing they've been up to lately, but still looks better to me compared to what Reddit have done lately or what other platforms have done in these years..

I don't know about their privacy feature, but i wouldn't trust their chat as for as far as i knew they were not end to end encrypted some time ago (except for secret chats).

Anyway it still looks like one of the at least still decent platforms out there, or am i wrong?

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[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The company's CEO is Pavel Durov, the very clown who built russian alternative to Facebook, VKontakte, and then practically sold it to russian government with all it's users. And russian government, being itself, repressed anyone who liked "wrong" stuff there. So, Durov being no stranger to selling things to governments, in my opinion, deserves zero trust.

[–] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He didn't voluntarily sell it to the Russian government.

[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't he basically get ousted and kicked out of Russia since he didn't wanna sell VK?

[–] copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com 3 points 1 year ago

Yes

[–] Llewellyn@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't know, what are you talking about.
https://lemmy.world/comment/1556530

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

I'm perfectly aware of what I'm talking about. He lost control of company's shares to government-affilated people and they fired him. What an unpredictable turn of events. I don't really care if it happend due to stupidity or malice, considering the amount of public stunts he pulled off at the time, I doubt you can call his course of action straightforward.

Even when he was fired, they did it with his own resignment notice he submitted as April Fool's joke. The guy is a literal clown, I have no idea why you'd entrust him with your data.