Depends. Having to share your phone number is not exactly privacy friendly. If you primarily care about that, Telegram is a somewhat better alternative.
Encryption is not the solution to everything. On most group chats I don’t care much about the non-sense that is written being public, but I do very much care about my identity not being revealed, especially not in a way to is linked to a government ID & that can be used to track me and annoy me with unwanted calls.
Get a burner phone number and set up a pin, problem solved. If you think telegram can be anonymous you are being rather naive. Go to your session lists and read information on all of your connected devices, whether connected through proxy or not. That’s not a one-out example. Did you share contacts list? Did you ever enable location? What about your device’s uptime? It is very much pseudonymous.
I’m a Signal user and I can see the phone numbers of everyone in a group chat I’ve been invited to. It matters hardly at all that it’s not stored unhashed on the server.
Depends. Having to share your phone number is not exactly privacy friendly. If you primarily care about that, Telegram is a somewhat better alternative.
Unless you only use telegram’s e2e signal is better without a doubt.
Encryption is not the solution to everything. On most group chats I don’t care much about the non-sense that is written being public, but I do very much care about my identity not being revealed, especially not in a way to is linked to a government ID & that can be used to track me and annoy me with unwanted calls.
Get a burner phone number and set up a pin, problem solved. If you think telegram can be anonymous you are being rather naive. Go to your session lists and read information on all of your connected devices, whether connected through proxy or not. That’s not a one-out example. Did you share contacts list? Did you ever enable location? What about your device’s uptime? It is very much pseudonymous.
Many if not most countries do not allow getting a phone SIM without linking it to your official government ID.
Edit: I rather suggest using XMPP. But Telegram is not strictly worse than Signal in every way.
Signal hashes your phone number so you don’t need to worry about it.
I’m a Signal user and I can see the phone numbers of everyone in a group chat I’ve been invited to. It matters hardly at all that it’s not stored unhashed on the server.
I heard they will make an option soon to hide it and add people by their names
Hopefully