I laid it out pretty plainly: we’re all leftists (as in world left, not US left), Trump is a petty man child who will absolutely go after his political enemies, and as his influence and reach increases, I’m not convinced that his administration won’t find ways to implicate regular citizens, and telegram isn’t secure or private enough for my paranoia. I was just plain and honest with them about my paranoia around privacy in general and that I wasn’t gonna use these other platforms anymore.
It was helpful that at the time that the CEO had just been arrested in France and there were stories swirling about how there were allegations that Telegram was compromised by Russia.
I made it easy and painless by providing links to download the app and join the group chat and it took a day or so but everyone piled in eventually. One friend even went so far as to remove Telegram entirely from their device. Baby steps, but I’ll take what I can get.
I convinced my inner circle of friends to switch to Signal from Telegram. The group chat is now more private than it’s ever been!
How did you do it? I tried convincing several people to use Matrix or Signal, and I get “who am I gonna talk to on there?” and “WhatsApp works fine”.
I laid it out pretty plainly: we’re all leftists (as in world left, not US left), Trump is a petty man child who will absolutely go after his political enemies, and as his influence and reach increases, I’m not convinced that his administration won’t find ways to implicate regular citizens, and telegram isn’t secure or private enough for my paranoia. I was just plain and honest with them about my paranoia around privacy in general and that I wasn’t gonna use these other platforms anymore.
It was helpful that at the time that the CEO had just been arrested in France and there were stories swirling about how there were allegations that Telegram was compromised by Russia.
I made it easy and painless by providing links to download the app and join the group chat and it took a day or so but everyone piled in eventually. One friend even went so far as to remove Telegram entirely from their device. Baby steps, but I’ll take what I can get.
I wish the FSNotes group used Matrix instead of Telegram.
Well done! One feature I’m missing from Telegram on Signal is the topics in the groups. Those are handy to keep parallel conversations happening