I seriously don't get why telegram is so common in crypto. 

August 20, 2024

- Putin and Telegram owner, Durov both in Baku 
- Telegram is blocked in Moscow for almost 3 hours

August 24
- Durov arrested in France

Tricks with polynomials and Riemann-Roch spaces. Breaking into the platonic realm to pillage forbidden abstractions. Starknet grantee.

Telegram isn’t a censorship-resistant platform (like Signal), it’s a weapon. Because tricking people into thinking they have privacy while you spy upon them is taking power over them. Power that nation states will then want.

encrypted messaging for farcaster communities / https://comm.app/download

Thoughts? I cant wrap my head around it. Specially from a ton of people and companies that claim to uphold cyberpunk ideals.

Had a nice discussion about this with @comm.eth a few weeks ago

Yeah, although definitely not ideal I do think whatsapp is more trustworthy than telegram. At least for the messages. I think they do gather a lot of metadata. WhatsApp uses the Signal Protocol for encrypting messages. You have to trust
- WhatsApp’s implementation of the Signal Protocol hasn’t been tampered with.
- Meta does not introduce vulnerabilities or capture data outside the encrypted content (e.g., metadata like phone numbers, timestamps, or IP addresses).

I think it has been audited as well.

It’s the worst like whatsapp. I don’t like how ubiquitous it is with service businesses

Agree on the sentiment of TG. Testament to network effects.

Signals is def the most trusted private messager, but its censorship resistance story is a bit complicated.
1. Centralized servers means nations like China can ban it
2. Since accounts is based on a phone number, it's possible to takeover accounts