Comment on Whatsapp has begun working on support for third party chats (Telegram/Signal)

• fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  yeah, there was totally no lobbying involved and the eu wants this for the greater good and innocent convenience of the european citizens.

  Dunno, but I don’t see much benefit for whatsapp when, as stated, is the most used messaging app in europe, and all of us that dislike it are forced to use it because we don’t live in a bubble.

  (btw, standard telegram messages aren’t encrypted in the first place)

  They are. They are encrypted client to server and they are stored encrypted in the server. Yeah it’s not E2E but saying that they are not encrypted makes it look like it is like whatsapp was for about 3-4 years until they implemented e2e, actual non encrypted messages. I would prefer if it were possible to have e2e in telegram normally, without losing all the utilities like being able to use it without having the phone connected but right now it’s the only app that provides stuff that I use regularly.

  If you have been following the improvements, whatsapp is lagging behind telegram in regard to stickers, message deletion, message editing, markdown bold/italized/monospace texts, idk if it even has spoiler blocks… yeah.

  Also, for security there’s signal but then my friends use telegram and family uses whatsapp, it doesn’t have the utility features that telegram provides like voice calls to friends from the desktop…

  Anyway, as stated I genuinely think that this is good for us non whatsapp users that need to interact with people that only use whatsapp and were forced to have it installed.

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