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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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For what end do you want to make your choice?
Like many said, whatsapp has a huge userbase, which is the foundation for a IM-app. However, telegram totally blows the compitision out of the water when it comes to features / UI / API access. But there are other alternatives - depending on your usercase: Signal - not as userfriendly, but the encryption and meta-data retention is unpararelled. Matrix-chat - even less userfriendly than Signal, but does match the API access of Telegram and a huge amount of clients, which can satisfy most user-needs (even outside of traditional IM:ing).
Do note - Telegram is not encrypted by default. This was a conscious design of the company running it, so you can easily access your chats accross different devices. And they use a home-made encryption protocol, which is a very bad idea. So don’t rely on Telegram for anything that remotely requires confidentiality.