• OskarAxolotl@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Nobody should use Telegram, in my opinion. It’s run by a shady company that doesn’t even disclose the inner workings of their service properly, uses a non-standard encryption protocol and doesn’t even encrypt chats by default. The only thing I like about Telegram is the fact that you don’t have to expose your phone number to use it.

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      1 year ago

      One thing they really have going for them is timely delivery of image data.

      When I detect motion in my driveway I send them the JPEG through their API, without skipping a beat I get the image on all of my devices including my watch.

      I tried email, discord, SMS, slack, pushbullet. Stuff either takes a long time to come through or comes through missing an image. I honestly hope they never shut down the service because I cannot find another service that runs as well. Fortunately for my needs I don’t care and the least about encryption.