blog: Telegrams second chance

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+title: "Telegrams second chance"
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+tags: [telegram, english, esperanto]
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+*I have blogged about Telegram a lot and I thought I would end it to
+ leaving it, but that didn't happen. However I MUST type about the
+ current situation I have with it.*
+
+**TL;DR I don't recommend Telegram for anyone if you aren't forced to use
+it and to protect myself I am not setting username. As I don't recommend
+it, I am there only with my primary phone number (DO NOT SHARE IT), if
+someone needs to contact me, use Matrix @Ciblia:matrix.org or Wire
+(myname at myname dot info).**
+
+* * * * *
+
+If you haven't read my blog previously, you might want to read the aspects
+of Telegram I have written about earlier:
+
+* [How to private message people on Telegram without getting reported for spam]({% post_url 2016-04-26-telegram-privatemessaging-people %})
+    * Where I have Telegrams spam issue my issue and try to make it clear
+      to its users that they are not behaving properly.
+* [Why I use Telegram?]({% post_url 2016-05-21-why-telegram %})
+    * Where I talk about the positive aspects.
+* [Telegram tweets where I refer often]({% post_url 2016-06-01-telegram-tweets %})
+    * The beginning (and end) with communication with Telegram developers.
+        * I have also tweeted to [Wire] multiple times and I cannot
+          remember any tweet that they haven't replied just as a
+          side-note...
+* [Why to not use Telegram?]({% post_url 2016-09-29-why-not-telegram %})
+    * Where I finally leave Telegram and talk about the negative aspects.
+
+*I also think I am not going to edit all of those posts and if you have a
+problem, feel free to send Pull Requests.*
+
+* * * * *
+
+So in the previous episode I left Telegram (and after a long time briefly
+visited it again as there were problems with relaybot (which simply
+moved to another persons API key) but it was too stressful so I left
+almost immediately) and now after a long time I have returned there.
+
+I would have preferred avoiding it, but I started learning Esperanto on
+Sunday (20th) in the freenode channel (use ALIS) I was overspoken to
+returning there as
+[Telegram is very popular with Esperantists (link in Esperanto)](http://telegramo.org/).
+
+This brings me back Telegram issues where the only ones that I can affect
+are:
+
+* *Twisted version of FOSS*
+    * As the app is open source even if the source is released long time
+      after releases, it's in [F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/) which is
+      Android app store for FOSS apps, which has compiled it (removing
+      GCM support and possibly other propietary parts) I installed Telegram
+      from there and I know the app which I am using is open source even
+      if it lags long behind the Play Store version.
+* *Spam*
+    * I don't set username (killing one of the only good things in
+        Telegram) as that would allow anyone to contact me instead of only
+        the people who have my number or are in common group with me.
+    * I only join groups that I actually need to join avoiding bigger
+      groups that might potentially be nice, but which would surely lure
+      spammers. This is another good feature of Telegram killed.
+        * This way to contact me you must have my number or be in common
+          group and I might know which group the spammer is part of and
+          in addition to reporting them for spam I can also report them
+          to the group admin possibly getting them removed. I don't think
+          Esperantists, SailfishOS fans or autists tolerate spamming.
+
+* * * * *
+
+Originally I was trying to be at Telegram using both phones (OnePlus3 &
+Jolla1), but people found it too confusing so I decided to kill the less
+private account to avoid confusion. It also makes the message that I
+don't support Telegram more clear, but makes contacting me more
+difficult for Telegram users who actually have something to say to me,
+but that is their problem. **Do NOT give my phone number to these
+people.**
+
+I think my primary communication protocol is currently
+[Matrix](https://matrix.org/) where I am
+[@Ciblia:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/@Ciblia:matrix.org), but
+[IRC](/irc) isn't going anywhere either (especially thanks to 
+[Matrixs IRC bridge](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/208)).
+I have also started warming to [Wire] which doesn't require phone number
+(when registering using the [web or desktop apps](https://app.wire.com/)),
+seems to have better encryption than Telegram (which is not surprising)
+which is based on Signal and works on multiple devices without having to
+keep one connected all the time.
+
+[Wire]:https://wire.com/
+[WhatsApp]:https://whatsapp.com/
+[Signal]:https://whispersystems.org/