Telegram became the most popular messenger in Russia

Its share, according to the analysis of mobile Internet traffic, in the total volume increased from 48% to 63%. For the first time in Russia, Durov's messenger surpassed WhatsApp in popularity, whose share in March fell from 48% to 32%.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered Apple and Google to help block access to the Telegram messaging app within the country, according to Reuters. The sealed order, handed down today, demands Brazil’s telecommunications agency Anatel officially suspend Telegram until it complies with local orders and pays a series of fines. The news follows accusations that Telegram has failed to prevent users from spreading disinformation as it’s become a communications hub for President Jair Bolsonaro.

Internal fight :-)

German Interior Minister Nancy Feser said in an interview that if Telegram does not remove illegal content, the messenger may be blocked. She also clarified that she considers blocking a serious, even radical method, and first it is necessary to exhaust the possibilities of other mechanisms of legal influence.

Shits.

“Yesterday, Telegram saw a record growth in registration and user activity. The daily growth rate of Telegram exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and in one day we accepted more than 70 million refugees from other platforms, "- quotes the source of the words of Mr. Durov, who also called on existing users of the service to help newcomers" settle down ". “We will not let you down when others do it,” Durov added.

Is good for sharing data without being fackt check

Group video calls added

https://telegram.org/blog/group-video-calls

It did not take long

The American non-profit organization Coalition for a Safer Web (Coalition for a Safer Internet) demanded that Apple remove the Telegram messenger from its app store. It is reported by The Washington Post.

According to the newspaper, the organization filed a lawsuit with the relevant demand on Sunday, January 17. Its representatives accused the leadership of the messenger of lack of measures against users who spread messages with extremist content, including after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The plaintiffs point out that such content violates Apple's app store terms of use.

It is noted that a similar claim is also planned to be filed against Google. Apple and Telegram have not yet commented on the situation.

Signal is back after an outage that lasted more than 24 hours

Nice stability

I heard that Signal backend quality is most horrible in the industry, requiring around 4-5 times of hardware to do same things as other messangers can do with fraction of it.

@Meierhans

So your claim is: As Signal secure e2e encryption could be taken away any day, why not just choose a messenger that does come with this feature right from the start? (Or claims to come with it, but you do not know if its real or not..)

No, I told you that Signal and alike give you false sense of "safety". But it is totally false.

About the Signal protocol, sure you can check: https://community.signalusers.org/t/wiki-overview-of-third-party-security-audits/13243

You can, as well as telegram protocol.

But this guys just can make custom silent client update and... hoopla and specially for you everything will go directly to proper place.

Anyhow, I agree that relying onto a centralized messenger like Signal - may it be open source or not - may not be a good idea long term. But at least itm is seems way more secure to me than tlgrm, or even whatsapp, closed source messengers hostet by unknown/badly known party. In case Signal would suddenly change encryption or deliver a client that does so secretly, this would be reported by the community quite soon.

You miss my points. As you try to go into trap that capitalist made for you.

And lot of nice developers with various libertarian attitude are quite stupid as I already told, they want to build something stable and usable in the middle of warfire. One rocket or cannon and all will be gone. You already saw it happening around without any masks anymore.

If it was just about me: I hate any kind of messenger that asks for my phone number... WHY?? Yet I prefer to contact those who are less into tech via Signal - than via whatapp (wurgs..), tlgrm or even plain phone.

Let me tell you seriously. If you are not young girl or salesman, you need to look for desktop client as desktop is where major talks happen in office or during remote work or such. And Signal don't have anything really usable, contrary to simple fast and best in the industry Telegram app.

@Meierhans

Why should everybody trust into an client - server based encryption, where the trust into the server can not be garanteed at all? (Since its neither open source, nor is the host itself known to anybody.)

Let me tell you as guy who had some relation to this.

All this "open source" and "end to and encryption" as it is presented now in things like Signal is bullshit (to enduser like you). You can't check it and you can't check that it suddenly changed or encryption turned off. For simple ordinary user it can be even worse. As from hands of guys who sell aggregate data and provide access to government you can go right into hands of guys who sell everything almost each day.

Big thing that all this libertarian guys missing is that they want to build the nice peaceful hut right int he middle of war field. I mean that no one will tolerate this as soon as it will become really popular.

So, it is certainly good idea to advance towards P2P messenger with end to end encryption that is not using AES and similar protocols contrary to current solutions. But all this math is not enough, you also need usability, speed and many more things.

ALso remember - you will be thrown out from both mobile app stores almost instantly.

Lol

@peaceonearth

Having Russian owners doesn't give me a good feeling neither.

You mean that Mordor KGB will be hunting you down for discussion of recent porn videos? :-)

telegram doesn't have end-to-end encryption in standard chat. Everything is stored on their servers.

This is whole point, as you can login at any device and have all chats available. It is usability thing as user expect such behavior now. Techno geeks can not like it much, but it is how it is.

For any real serious talks use secure chats or custom things.

Btw some organizations use usual messengers with special custom software that encrypts and decrypts text on the fly, so if you gain access to messenger all you will find is lot of "0x6354BA72635" stuff.

For any small or medium organization custom solution is most secure - as it require big real expenses to explore and understand. While Signal and such always have special holes for such situations for right people.

Niche observations

80% of WhatsApp contacts this week asked about Telegram and after trying Telegram client for few days most common comment had been - "Is it really possible to make things so nice and smooth and.. just working?"

Btw, most worried now are the people who had been most vivid BLM and democrat supporters :-) It seems they feel where all is going with their gut.