I cant schedule an appointment at the vet with signal.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You should be using Signal anyway.
Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well if you tell them you are using Signal and they adopt it, you sure can.
What is your imaginary boundary here where Telegram makes this easier somehow?
Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The problem is not that I’m not using signal (I am), its that I also have to use telegram and\or whatsapp if I want to contact anyone without sending them an sms.
So all this bloat still affects me, whether I “just use signal lol” or not.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not sure what part of the world you’re in, so maybe there is a societal difference here, but last I checked, if you’re running a business, it’s not only run on chat apps. There are other venues to contact businesses to schedule things…
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I doubt Signal is supported by their scheduling/desk software though, Telegram has pretty wide support.
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 months ago
there’s this old thing called the telephone
or if they’re insufficiently modern (in a good way) a website
Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
“Hello sorry for calling you, can you repair a part of an electric oven? It looks like a thingy with a couple springs. No I can’t send you a photo on whatsapp, do you mind quickly installing signal? No? What about email? You’re going to respond in 3-5 business day? Yeah sure I can survive that long on raw potatoes”
If you can afford existing without big tech, I’m honestly jealous. I’m willing to go quite far for my principles (like I have a phone with graphene) but at a certain point life just gets too difficult. I’m barely above water on my adult-ing as it is 🤷♀️
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 months ago
I genuinely don’t understand what’s wrong with email in this situation? Stay on the phone with them until the email arrives?
doodledup@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think Telegram is more of a social media than a messenger.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What, like Instagram kind of thing?
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not really. It just group chats and some are used as news feeds.
Its one of those UX where people force a tool to do something it’s not supposed to like Discord for forums etc.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
One can say terrible, one can say ingenious.
A news feed with comments and a group chat are projections of the same object, thus you have all the events in one “community” in one place, seeing them always (more or less, because going to comments of a post you only see that post’s children and their children and so on).
Personally I think it’s much more convenient than Discord.
And the public opinion seems to be in TG’s favor for usability (except it exhausts me to see that many groups and checking them, so authors’ FB clone background definitely shows).
I think the market has decided that this UX is good. But technically TG is, 1) proprietary in fact despite open client source, 2) insecure, 3) starts getting overloaded with features by now.
I’d want a federated FOSS alternative. I’m actually thinking how one can do that (especially the part about sharing files, the TG way means they’ll have to be stored for long somewhere ; maybe one can have each user issue a fixed amount of tokens on registration, those tokens be passed by uploading user to the one providing storage, and somehow thus using local storage of users as a currency, for file storage only ; the thought is inspired by Redis and probably sucks, especially since in Redis tokens are for hash partitions ; it’s also inspired by BitTorrent reputation and tracker ratings, where you have to upload something to be able to download yadda-yadda) without making running a server a very expensive task. Probably should read something on how XMPP and IRC and other server-server connections work, but lazy.
Interesting even, can a FOSS federated TG alternative be just another Lemmy frontend. Again, the attached files part should be solved in some smarter way than storing them all on servers, people upload huge things to TG. A builtin bittorrent client is not a solution, cause one person sharing a file and going offline means that nobody can download it. So the previous idea with tokens may be not too bad.
ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 2 months ago
Nah, more like a better WhatsApp but with haters even worse than the WhatsApp haters.
rdri@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pretty much yes. It has channels so there are news channels, personal channels etc. At some point when I discovered Twitter for myself I hated it so much for not being able to simply read subscribed accounts just like telegram does it. It’s too convenient as a feeds app.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Like a light version of Discord
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 months ago
So, a messenger?
AizawaC47@lemm.ee 2 months ago
No it would be best to compare it to discord, except the UI is cleaner and much better.
BreakerSwitch@lemm.ee 2 months ago
In my experience, telegram is one of those “if someone asks you to go on this app, they’re trying to scam you” platforms. Flatly avoid.
doodledup@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why did you delete your previous comment that has the exact same content?
BreakerSwitch@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Because I’m stupid (I convinced myself I wanted to say something slightly different, deleted the original, then while writing it differently decided it was better off as is. Yes I know I can edit)