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Telegram is Free, Secure Unlimited Connection, Right?
It seems too good to be true though
When I saw my contacts on Telegram, I was relieved they were on my side.
They seem so dangerous COVID probably quarantines to avoid them. Here I thought I was cutting edge only to learn that compared to them I could barely spell knife. Facebook owns both WhatsApp and Instagram.
Privacy does not seem like Facebook’s jam.
People who care about completely encrypted comms for a specific reason are like to have those reasons going forward.
A global pandemic is as good a time as any to become serious about your privacy.
Telegram looks like the future
The interface is minimal and clean.
It is 100% free. It is 100% open. They seem to provide access to the code you’d want to see if you vet their value proposition.
Their discussion of security was above my pay grade. They believe that they are secure.
You can create chat groups of up to 200,000 members. Share large videos — docs of any type of up to two gigs each. You can host massive online communities.
Delivers with as small a data use as is possible.
