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I don't mind paying a fair price, for a service, so they should go for it. I use both Signal and Telegram, and I would pay for Telegram too, if the price was more fair...
Don't use Telegram, let alone pay for it. So many red flags with Telegram.
Feel free to list them - with evidence and not just prejudice...?
There's end-to-end encryption. It's fine that you can chose what needs to be private, and what doesn't need to be.
There could be several reasons as to why the servers are not OS. Why do you need that part to be OS? Seriously, why?
Oh, so your problem with Telegram is, that it had some issues in the past, just like EVERY other app in the beginning? Nice one. :-)
So, let's summarize.
That is not what I said. Please take a deep breath, maybe go outside for a minute, and read my reply again.
First of all, you injected yourself in my debate with another person. You do it by answering for that person, which mean, you lie by default, since you don't know that persons answers. Then you say there are no end-to-end encryption by default, but that depends on what you use it for. Calls are encrypted by default.
But nice to know that you really didn't have any serious red flags. Now it would be nice to hear from the person I was originally debating with...
Ah sorry. I thought you were here on lemmy for an open discussion and polite, good-faith arguments, not just trolling and name-calling. My bad.
So, where did I use name-calling?
An open discussion is always welcome. Someone hijacking a conversation is not. So yeah... your bad.
Sorry, I don't talk to liars.
Being one yourself, that would make sense. You'd have a strange conversation.
Woot?! (not op),
Its totally fine that you like telegram, but you can do that while acknowledging others preferences
So far, don't you think that you really would know, if government was involved in any way that didn't involve crime fighting? Do you prefer an app, where crime roam free? Is that your issue? That it doesn't?
AFAIK it's you and two others, who don't acknowledge my preferences... So please consider following your own advice!
Price is fair but features aren’t worth it.
You contradict yourself. You can't say that the price is fair, for something that doesn't have the features that the price should cover.