Signal
Which wants a phone #.
Comment on WhatsApp is one step closer to adding email address verification
Orbit79@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe they need it to link WA accounts to FB accounts.
Signal FTW.
ikidd@lemmy.world 11 months ago
HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They are working on doing away with the requirement
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 11 months ago
As far as I know, it would still be needed at registration, just would give you an option to hide it and thus it would stop being your main identifier.
HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Meta acct
nixcamic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I know Signal is technically better but Telegram provides a much better user experience than Signal or WhatsApp and is also less problematic than WhatsApp.
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Considering Telegram has partnered with Tencent, I wouldn’t say it’s less problematic.
nixcamic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My understanding is that Telegram is partnered with a non profit crypto group, and that group is partnered with like 20 different companies that validate transactions, one of which is Tencent.
Granted I only read a couple articles on it in the last five minutes cause this was the first I heard of it, there could be more to the story I missed.
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
The problem with telegram is that it’s not even e2e encrypted by default.
But the ui is really nice. I wonder why no other project simply forked telegram’s client and focused on the encryption and server side code
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yep.
Telegram is a decent middle ground. UI/UX matters, I’m not sure how the folks at Signal are completely missing that point.
The Signal UI is OK, as a competitor to SMS. But it’s terrible compared to Telegram. This matters to non-technical people, it’s how you get them to use it. Plus the seamless connection between devices - that’s crucial. I can chat using whatever device is in front of me.
Mentando@feddit.de 11 months ago
Just out of curiosity, since I am fine with the Signal UI/UX: what would you say are the top features that make Telegram better?
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m guessing you’ve never seen Telegram? It looks like a modern messaging system.
This is a screenshot: dribbble.com/…/12242096-Telegram-Messenger-Free-D…
While Signal looks like any generic SMS app. Heck, both NextSMS and Textra look as good/better and have more “features” (interface customization).
As a technical person who cares more about functionality that stuff doesn’t matter much to me, but it’s easy to see how a typical user would perceive them (and honestly, the difference is so great it even affects me).
Signal looks dated, like SMS, Telegram looks (and behaves) modern.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I’m not OP, but I’ve switched to Telegram a while back because I loved the silent message option. Scheduled are also awesome, and recently added quote part of reply is very neat.
This is all UI, the UI is sleek but nothing too extraordinary for me.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You need to explicate the hell out of this cuz I vehemently disagree and point out, in terms of user experience its dogshit for me (but also implicitly that Telegram is conveniently insecure by default and even if you “encrypt”, ifs a non-documented public slop version of messaging encryption [novel + security by obscurity]
Consequently, I would never be comfortable trusting it
nixcamic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What do you want expectorated, why IMO it’s a better option than WhatsApp or why the UI is way better than Telegram or Signal? Cause they’re very different things.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Expectoration is more about coughing up phlegm so not sure how toaddress that quite yet ;) Tell me more :)