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arrow-up11.3Karrow-down1imageits even more outdatedlemmy.dbzer0.comNarendraCzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square445fedilink
minus-squarenicoweio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 year agoIt has become better, though. Multi-device (without your primary device needing an internet connection) Deleting messages Editing messages Reactions Larger file uploads…
minus-squareStumblinbear@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·1 year agoTelegram is better in pretty much every way, and has been for almost a decade
minus-squareletsgocrazy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoMessaging Apps are only as good as whatever Apps most people use.
minus-squarezwekihoyy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agotelegram isn’t even e2ee, why would anyone recommend it.
minus-squareStumblinbear@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year ago… The comparison, here, is WhatsApp, so Besides, surprisingly people like cross-device sync even if they happen to not have access to their old devices
minus-squaresmileyhead@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoTelegram’s frontend apps*
minus-squareZagorath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoHave they fixed the problem where you have to use your phone number as your ID? Cos that’s what’s stopping me signing up. I refuse to use my phone number as my ID for a service that isn’t actually carried over SMS or phone calls.
minus-squarezeroxxx@lemmy.my.idlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoWhatsApp and Telegram become this big, including less recognized Signal, because they use phone numbers. It won’t be changed, ever.
minus-squaresmileyhead@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhatsApp functionality is closer and closer to functionality of XMPP 10 years ago. Maybe after another 10 years they finally adopt [email protected] function.
minus-squarenicoweio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI’m not old enough to remember XMPP first-hand, so allow me to ask what functionality you mean. Do you mean to imply a fediverse, where whatsapp.com is merely an instance, such as lemmy.world is here?
It has become better, though.
Telegram is better in pretty much every way, and has been for almost a decade
Messaging Apps are only as good as whatever Apps most people use.
telegram isn’t even e2ee, why would anyone recommend it.
… The comparison, here, is WhatsApp, so
Besides, surprisingly people like cross-device sync even if they happen to not have access to their old devices
Telegram’s frontend apps*
Have they fixed the problem where you have to use your phone number as your ID?
Cos that’s what’s stopping me signing up. I refuse to use my phone number as my ID for a service that isn’t actually carried over SMS or phone calls.
WhatsApp and Telegram become this big, including less recognized Signal, because they use phone numbers.
It won’t be changed, ever.
WhatsApp functionality is closer and closer to functionality of XMPP 10 years ago.
Maybe after another 10 years they finally adopt [email protected] function.
I’m not old enough to remember XMPP first-hand, so allow me to ask what functionality you mean. Do you mean to imply a fediverse, where whatsapp.com is merely an instance, such as lemmy.world is here?