Ukraine's National Coordination Center for Cyber Security on September 20 banned the usage of the Telegram messenger app for state officials, military personnel, and employees of key infrastructure, citing security issues.
Honestly curious, what was missing on Signal and what was complicated?
I can’t even remember the sign up process and never felt I was missing out on features, at least not on features available elsewhere
I’m speaking waaaaay far at the beginning so my mind is foggy as fuck, but there was something about configuration and messages not being sent if the host wasn’t correct, I think you had to configure the host or something, it put away a lot of normal users (with good reason) who only wanted to install an app and talk.
Also it had nothing pretty about it, text only in a time when Telegram had gifs, was already adding stickers and shit, so it being complicated and having nothing pretty made it impossible for me to bring normal people into it.
I know it has changed a lot since then, but I stopped paying attention after that and with the time they got super buddy-buddy with meta for a while and how hostile their fanbase is against anything else… I dunno, it left a terrible impression so I rather keep searching for something else, right now I’m waiting for SimpleX to pretty-up so I can attempt to bring people over (it’s gonna take years since they first need to take it to a better state, but so far so good).
Honestly curious, what was missing on Signal and what was complicated? I can’t even remember the sign up process and never felt I was missing out on features, at least not on features available elsewhere
I’m speaking waaaaay far at the beginning so my mind is foggy as fuck, but there was something about configuration and messages not being sent if the host wasn’t correct, I think you had to configure the host or something, it put away a lot of normal users (with good reason) who only wanted to install an app and talk. Also it had nothing pretty about it, text only in a time when Telegram had gifs, was already adding stickers and shit, so it being complicated and having nothing pretty made it impossible for me to bring normal people into it.
I know it has changed a lot since then, but I stopped paying attention after that and with the time they got super buddy-buddy with meta for a while and how hostile their fanbase is against anything else… I dunno, it left a terrible impression so I rather keep searching for something else, right now I’m waiting for SimpleX to pretty-up so I can attempt to bring people over (it’s gonna take years since they first need to take it to a better state, but so far so good).