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Aaina
@aaina
This is as good an opportunity as any to set the record straight about Telegram. I cannot for he life of me understand how it become a default for the broader crew of people who profess allegiance to the ethos of cryptography and anti-surveillance systems. I remember asking people about this early on to a lot of hemming and hawing. People like to feel like they are opting out while secretly maintaining convenience. Be a frontiersperson or don’t but don’t lie to yourself about it. https://x.com/zooko/status/1827806008351285444?s=46
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
For a long time it was hard for me to be enthusiastic about moving to Signal because of Signal's dependence on phone numbers. They did recently add usernames, which certainly motivated me accelerating moving my network over, I feel like I'm at around 50/50 between signal and TG now.
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
The ux was good , nobody made one better
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
I begrudgingly use tg for coordinating Q node runners, because signal group chats have an upper bound of 1,000, and major usability issues. I also take a strong stance of not saying anything on there I would not broadcast publicly anyway (which I apply that policy everywhere, even on "safer" channels). Once our launch is done, then the decentralized discord clone project that kicked it off in the first place can be deployed, which offers the security and UX people want.
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Jordan
@ruminations
100% Telegram became popular because it was useful for coordinating crypto communities, in part because of the loose regulation. If these people really cared about privacy and anti-censorship they would have used Signal, Wickr, etc. But those options would have been harder to leverage for making money in crypto so...
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Craic'd
@craiconchain
Best take I've read so far gg
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Tim Robinson
@timjrobinson
It was/is the only chat app that uses usernames and is easy to connect with strangers in person. WhatsApp and Signal use phone numbers and Messenger is linked to Facebook.
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