I don’t understand Telegram, it just seems like Signal, but worse. Can someone explain to me what the purpose of Telegram is?
Its better than signal in every aspect except privacy (still better than whatsapp in that and arguably a secure messaging app).
You didn’t tell me how it’s better in any way, and you told me that it’s worse in a very very important way. So… why would I ever use it?
Sounds to me like Signal is still the best messaging app.
Telegram is more geared towards group communication. It has a much better group chat experience and a channel feature that lets you disseminate information in a single place without a discussion taking place. It is better at group communications in that it is more feature-rich.
If you’re doing is 1:1 messaging or have some small group chats with 2-3 friends you wouldn’t get much out of it over Signal.
For me:
- Awesome stickers with very good custom sticker support.
- You can use a nickname to chat, you don’t need to share your GSM number with anyone which was an incredibly stupid idea in the first place. On that account , better privacy than Signal or ShitsApp.
- You can use simultaneously on multiple web AND mobile devices.
- You don’t lose your chat history when you login from another mobile device like in ShitsApp.
- Stores your media server-side. So you always have your full chat with all the media in it. Of course this requires care about what you share with other.
- Forwarding messages between chats has a lot of flexibility.
- Message editing. Which ShitsApp finally copied. 🤣
- Constantly improved. They are always adding more features.
- The channel support is really good…
Signal also has usernames now.
Yes, finally. But I would say a bit late to the party. And a privacy focused IM not thinking about this for years blows my mind.
