if it's truly impervious, one must assume it does not require ones nsec...

Else truly, impervious will control your data, identity and communications in perpetuity.

there may be foss clients, but they still connect closed source TG servers, you can't self host TG, it's centralised

if you trust TG you might just as well trust TikTok

or SMS

Just because you've invested time building TG communities and content, doesn't justify shilling TG as a safe platform for chatting / communicating. It's not paranoia, you know as well as I do that TG admins can see a LOT of detail in relation to users and conversations.

no self respecting bitcoiner would install Telegram

1 - it's closed source, cannot be self hosted 2 - requires a phone number 3 - shitcoinery

is there even an apk available for it? don't see one on their website

nice, didn't know that

being grateful is highly underrated

Thanksgiving isn't a thing in Europe, nor is Black Friday, but lots of companies try to make it a thing, which is a bit cringe

"buy our stuff at a discount because of this foreign holiday!!"

when will apple developers learn..

the issue applies equally to microsoft to be fair

you could lose your github, teams, outlook, linkedin, windows logins just as fast with an errant twatter link

try them all!

Just avoid those that require pasting your private key into a browser.

Best to use an extension for login, or native app for now

niiice

I agree it's bad, but unless the incentives are changed...

Miners gonna mine their own business (terms)

Telegram is not a safe platform

SN is great but for true social media there is only one option (nostr)

Miners should be able to mine what they want

If you don't like it, use a different pool

What else do you expect, when using the apple walled garden?

thanks - so it's basically just an advertisement for a fancy snack bar

not public, also requires execution of closed source twatter javascript

paywalled

with simplex you are simply responsible for your own backups. And bigger groups are in the roadmap: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat#roadmap

captchas on matrix? since when? never seen it on any of our instances or clients. btw I wouldn't recommend ever connecting to matrix.org, use a self hosted instance, not that hard

this is a great post btw, I agree the perfect messenger app does not exist (yet)

I would love for it to be briar due to their mesh networking feature, but the app does need more work.

Why would they pay this much if it wasn't a honeypot

Avoid signal. Simplex, self hosted matrix, 0xchat are all good alternatives

actually no, the first one was Liberland, and they still hold most of their reserves in BTC

or so they said, once.

Is there any evidence they followed up on this policy?

Only I haven't seen any. Would love to be corrected, I'd like to believe this happened / is still happening.

it's not enough, should be higher