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layout: post
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comments: true
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title: "Why not Telegram or why I left it"
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category: [english]
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tags: [english, Telegram, feminism]
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*You might have read my post on [why I use Telegram] or something else
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about Telegram I have typed, so I guess I must also blog about why I
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left.*
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[why I use Telegram]:{% post_url 2016-05-21-why-telegram %}
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* *Communication* - you might have seen [Telegram tweets] and how there
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is only one tweet which they ever replied to. However they never
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implemented any way to limit who can start those secret chats (that are
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[insecure] by the way).
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* *Changelogs* - when I write this, Telegram Desktop changelog lags
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month behind the releases which there have been at least three.
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* *Twisted version of FOSS* - They claim to be *Free Open Source Software*,
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but they never released the source of the server side software and
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they always release the source code long time after the client has
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been released, even if I know Android does this too. The third party
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clients suffer from the same issue, they say their code is stolen
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to paid projects and thus they just stop releasing the code. As a side
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issue they also don't use `git tag`.
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* *Security* - you have surely seen someone comment that Telegram is
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[insecure] and what do the founders do? They start attacking the person
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saying that it's insecure instead of doing anything to the security
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issues. The latest case was Pavel Durov vs Edward Snowden at Twitter.
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* *Spam* - the topic I have written the most about. At Telegram there is
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no way to control who can message you (you can only report them for
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spam afterwards if you don't reply and that doesn't apply to their
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"secret chats"). As I am a woman, I get messages from many men and my
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block list was around 110 people at the time I removed my account. The
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issue didn't get helped by removing username which is one big reason
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to use Telegram and while I had username, it got worse when "Telegram
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search engine" Intent.to listed me as a "channel or bot" which
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apparently meant "dating bot" as my username was "Kissaela", I was
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probably findable with the word "kiss".
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* How other services have reslved this?
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* IRCds generally have usermode +g preventing anyone from messaging
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you unless you `/accept` them or give them permision to PM you
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first.
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* Matrix/Riot requires you to create a room for even messages
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between two users and to message the person, you must invite
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them to your new room. The invited user has a choice whether
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to follow your invitation or refuse it.
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[Telegram tweets]:{% post_url 2016-06-01-telegram-tweets %}
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[insecure]:http://security.stackexchange.com/a/49802
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* * * * *
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How do you reach me now? I will be updating my SOME page to include IM
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accounts or kill the chat page replacing it with contact page including
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some kind of details on how to contact me (remember the PGP key that won't
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be listed) hopefully keeping control on who can contact me. Whichever
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I do, you will find the SOME or Contact page from top bar. It still needs
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some thinking and I won't be updating this page.
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* * * * *
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I almost forgot, you can remove your Telegram account at
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[Telegram.org/deactivate](https://telegram.org/deactivate) . You are asked
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your phone number in international format and then security code sent t
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*Telegram* and you are asked for optional feedback before leaving and
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final confirmation. When you confirm, you are logged out of all Telegram
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clients and your account is gone. However your groups stay as ghosts.
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