KLISHDFSDF

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[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For the lazy, could you post a pic of what this looks like? Please and thanks either way.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Samsung alone is ~25% of the global Android smartphone market share [0]. This means 1 in 4 Android users will send "SMS" messages via RCS. You're right, it's not actually default, but it may as well be considering the app has over 5 billion downloads [1] and over 800 million monthly active users (MAU) [2]. This makes Google's Messages app slightly more popular than Telegram with 700 million MAU [3]. It may be a recent change, but its already taking over some of the more popular apps in terms of usage and general availability.

RCS is is late to the game but it's caught up and only getting better.

[0] You'll need to subtract Apple from the market share total to calculate the 25% as they include Apple in these numbers and I'm only talking about Android devices. Source: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/global-smartphone-share/

[1] Source: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging

[2] Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/rcs-800-million-users-3323216/

[3] Telegram MAU. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/234038/telegram-messenger-mau-users/

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

FUUUUUUCK cops

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is Beeper open source? If not, I'm unfortunately unable to extend my trust to yet another 3rd party with unverifiable code.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Appreciate the comment. I would like to do that but RCS is basically the default "SMS" option on Android making it broadly available to nearly half my contacts, the onboarding is basically "text me", whereas I'd have to provide some sort of instruction if I wanted to onboard anyone onto XMPP, in addition to recommending a good client depending on what OS they're running.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I'm not saying it can't be private, but defaults matter and by default every message sent on Telegram (unless you opt into a "secure chat") is viewable by anyone with access to Telegrams infrastructure and you have no way to know your message history has been compromised.

In contrast, everything within Signal is completely private and end-to-end encrypted with no compromises. Your groups, group names, profile pictures, stickers, reaction, voice/video message etc are all private without anyone having to make do anything. Privacy is enforced, not an option.

Telegram does have secure chats, but - either intentionally or not - they have made them incredibly inconvenient to use as they are not enabled by default, don't work in group chats, and don't sync across your own devices.

So yes, Telegram is private, just as private as a PGP encrypted email.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

there are exactly three messaging apps: Signal, Matrix/Element/SMS or RCS. anyone that wants to reach out has those options. I've had a lot of Signal converts.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

deltachat uses autocrypt which apparently doesn't support key verification yet. how secure is it if you can't even verify that your messages aren't being intercepted? I also didn't see anything about rotating keys after every message like Signal does, so anyone sucking up your encrypted messages just needs one key to see your entire message history. that doesn't sound very good.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

possibly because Telegram is as "private" as Facebook.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago

browsers can currently report to be anything. which is why Google is trying to stop it.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

why does the title say X when the article - and most people - still call it twitter?

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