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[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

As much as I'd love to get rid of SMS and email, there's no way Russia isn't collecting and processing all of the information in this app.

[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I would be surprised if they banned Telegram.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Pavel Durov had to flee Russia after resisting Putin's influence on VK. That's public information known to everyone who cares to spend a minute reading his Wikipedia article.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's basically a frontend to VK with functionality like that of Telegram.

Funny how much you can do if you do it slowly. Say, if 10 years ago someone would say all of Russia is moving to the only state-approved IM which is the same as VK, I think there'd be riots, LOL, even in Russia, LOL, it'd be like blocking all porn.

Since TG is most likely compromised, I think this won't be a significant change really.

Not being able to use WA for voice calls would suck though.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Back to IRC for them.

this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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