Update: now we are all home office for a while, and i had to set up signal (the dev team normally uses telegram) to keep in touch with everyone and wow what a fucking garbage app.

@linuxxx on suicide watch

How is Telegram better than Signal in any way?

@PrivateGER how is it not

I don't miss anything using Signal, and I also use Telegram... Love the clean app Signal has

I sadly haven't used signal enough to notice any problems with it. Telegram, on the other hand, feels bloated from the get-go.

@electrineer hows it bloated, its the only app that runs smooth on my dads 6 year old phone

@PrivateGER Telegrams has lots of nice and user-friendly features: usernames, bots, lots more stickers, a much nicer and customizable interface, support for huge groups, web interface.

@yellow-dog Unfortunately, it falls short very badly on one fundamental feature: encryption.
Regular chats are not e2e-encrypted, and they rolled their own crypto for secret chats (which can also only be used from the mobile app).

@yellow-dog see @endor's post above ;)

@electrineer his comment that backs me up? Non standard encryption is not bloat

@yellow-dog I meant the first paragraph

@endor This is actually one of the first times I hear this from someone!

I got about 30-40 people onto signal and they all find it very easy to use 😄