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[-] [email protected] 66 points 3 days ago

good news! signal has sticker packs

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

If only any of my friends would have it.. I have a lot of contacts on telegram, and on signal there's like 1. Even my furry friends are not on there

There are some active chats on matrix, but I don't know why on signal

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Maybe if you tell them that an LLM is being trained on all their "private" conversations now, they will change their mind?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Them: "I've got nothing to hide" (slowed down and reverbed)

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

I tried to switch to Signal but it feels so damn barren compared to Telegram :(

I want to love it but they make it hard

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Signal by design can't and won't support big group chats.

Frankly Telegram is socially a reiteration of IRC plus blogs. There are groups where people chat, there are channels where posts have comments. Posts and their comments are visible in the associated group, so all the life of a community is in one place. That's important for small groups and mobile devices.

Because these two things in the 00s web accounted for most of life.

A TG alternative with ActivityPub identities and proper secret chats would be nice, of course.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

The only problem with Telegram = IRC angle is that I can't scroll up in IRC to see what I missed throughout the day. I legitimately would love to switch my friend group to a self-hosted IRC server, but chat history is important.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

I don't know about any of this. I pretty much only have looked into it for porn and bootlegs of academic papers. Feels like I'm missing out on all the 'fun' of ai chats and cult groups.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

ai chats

I said nothing about such.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My biggest gripe with it is about electron. I refuse to keep it running on my PC. Even the damned Whatsapp converted to something better.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Oof, that sucks if that’s the case

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

signal has sticker packs

wait it does? maybe then I can convince my contacts to move there xD Seriously stickers are the main selling point of Telegram for us

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