@wedistribute @dansup @GuyDudeman it's a simple to use Cross-platform messaging app that supports text, images, audio, and video messaging. It's actually very good, Meta ownership notwithstanding. It gained popularity as smartphone usge grew & text messaging was still expensive. It's well featured & stable and works well.
@wiredfire @wedistribute @dansup @GuyDudeman you just described Telegram, sans the Facebook part. And it has working cross-device synchronization, not the lame "proxy me to via mobile app".
@dansup @GuyDudeman @dpwiz @wedistribute indeed, though for the purposes of the conversation I didn't touch on a critical flaw of Telegram: security. No end to end encryption by default, no device sync if you do use it. Now *that* is lame.
@wiredfire @dansup @GuyDudeman @wedistribute E2E in a closed source system under USA compliance, yeah, sure. Totally not lame.
I have no illusions with Telegram here, it's a public comms platform to share cat pics. You don't use that if you need E2E.
Trading away comfort of multi-device account and non-bloated open source clients for a clown mask of "security" doesn't cut it for me.
@wedistribute @dansup @dpwiz @GuyDudeman you do you, I guess.