What's with Telegram? Heard mixed opinions on it. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Some people say it's really privacy-giving and that you should use it as a privacy alternative. Others say it's alao on the big tech side. What's going on with telegram, really?

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[-] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

The only reason people think it is private is because for a long time it refused to corporate with governments (which is why plenty of criminal activity happens there)

It is about the least private option of all modern messaging apps (literally not e2ee, which means that the server owners have potentially full access to all chat content)

The only thing that makes it special is the bot support.

this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2025

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