Why do you despise it so much?
I use both WhatsApp and telegram and to be honest in daily use they might as well be the same app.
Other than the fact that it's owned by Facebook, I don't see any issues.
I use both WhatsApp and telegram and to be honest in daily use they might as well be the same app.
Other than the fact that it's owned by Facebook, I don't see any issues.
That's a pretty big issue for me - whilst the original team were in place, I had a degree of trust for them, but since their departure (and the stories as to why), I trust it less and less.
Unfortunately, for me and everyone I know - it's either iMessage or Whatsapp (depending on your choice of phone).
It's a pretty big issue, y'know.
For 1-1 or smaller chats they're mostly interchangeable except for Telegram's better support for multiple devices.
I've been chatting in unencrypted channels since the mid 90's so I don't exactly see E2EE as a hard requirement.
I'll switch my family chat to Signal or whatever as soon as I can add my home automation bot in there without some weird hacks or custom clients. The current implementation is a glorified Curl call for Discord and maybe 20 lines of Python for Telegram.
For Telegram Group Chat - it is not end-to-end encrypted, Telegram uses distributed infrastructure approach to protected data not covered by End-to-End encryption. I wouldn't consider WhatsApp's Group Chat end-to-end encrypted.