As (technically) a Russian dissident, the majority of Russian dissidents are idiots. See: support for Navalniy, support for Gaza genocide. FWIW I’m an idiot too.
Telegram is not private at all, it is not encrypted by default, and there are likely ways for three-letter agencies to leak your identity even without full cooperation from Telegram LLC.
While it’s true that Durov is somewhat anti-Putin, that doesn’t help you as (likely) a citizen of a western country. Durov will clearly cooperate with western governments on their demands, he holds French citizenship and regularly travels to Europe.
one who is in constant trouble with the law and is very happy to work with Five Eyes countries to save his own neck. I see enough stories about supposed private telegram channels being infiltrated to keep me off the platform. there’s only two kinds of people doing illegal shit on telegram, idiots and snitches.
Imo telegram and signal are not the same kind of service. One can handle rooms with dozens of hundreds of people in a room. The other is more for private one on one conversations.
And well yeah the security is much better on Signal.
Surely there must be a reason Russian dissidents trust it though? It’s owned by an anti Putin Russian oligarch, right?
As (technically) a Russian dissident, the majority of Russian dissidents are idiots. See: support for Navalniy, support for Gaza genocide. FWIW I’m an idiot too.
Telegram is not private at all, it is not encrypted by default, and there are likely ways for three-letter agencies to leak your identity even without full cooperation from Telegram LLC.
While it’s true that Durov is somewhat anti-Putin, that doesn’t help you as (likely) a citizen of a western country. Durov will clearly cooperate with western governments on their demands, he holds French citizenship and regularly travels to Europe.
tbh feels similar to how chinese people in foreign countries continue to use wechat
afaik like half the telegram devteam is russian or smth
one who is in constant trouble with the law and is very happy to work with Five Eyes countries to save his own neck. I see enough stories about supposed private telegram channels being infiltrated to keep me off the platform. there’s only two kinds of people doing illegal shit on telegram, idiots and snitches.
Tbh, I don’t get why dissidents use Telegram when Signal is literally right there
Imo telegram and signal are not the same kind of service. One can handle rooms with dozens of hundreds of people in a room. The other is more for private one on one conversations.
And well yeah the security is much better on Signal.
Or simpleX. Or Cwtch. Or Briar. Or I2P.