Comment on Russia's State Duma passes bill to create state messaging app as it considers blocking WhatsApp

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ceiron@europe.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well that’s because Telegram is likely the state messaging app they’re talking about! 😄

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  • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Touché

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    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I assume this is just a joke… Because with the relationship Telegram has with the Russian government this would be quite unlikely.

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      • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They do love the illusion of safety it produces. Recently it was confirmed TG’s infrastructure is managed by the same guys who do this for FSB. Google iStories for the investigation.

        The new messenger would probably be Max, a newly announced app from the russian nephew of Meta, Mail.ru, now called VK after they bought this site from Durov. In last ten years they bought many popular sites, educational platforms, started businesses in many spheres. This helps that it’s managed by the son of a russian top beaurocrat, so I guess it’s on them to take another niche without any competition.

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• HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why block a popular messenger that has no e2ee by default and shady custom e2ee that doesn’t even sync between multiple devices users can optionally use? Sounds counterproductive

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because it isn’t controlled by Russia.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    that doesn’t even sync between multiple devices

    Telegram syncs between devices for me. 🤷‍♂️ Not sure what you mean.

    (Yes, I’m in the middle of transitioning away from Telegram. Just gotta export my data first.)

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    • HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I meant their supposedly secret chats. Last time I’ve checked they weren’t even available on desktop

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Ah, yes. That’s correct, sorry I misunderstood you. Yeah that’s pretty lame that it doesn’t work on desktop. I remember wanting to use that several times.

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• logan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean they tried once, did not go so well

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