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Cake day: June 28th, 2021

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  • I had just uninstalled Element X like two weeks ago because I found it to under perform compared to the normal Element client on Android, in addition to lacking some features. I guess I’ll give it another shot.

    Update: WOW this thing feels lightning fast compared to just a few weeks ago. This is great. Not sure about feature completeness, but based on speed I think I’ll migrate Element > Element X again. Great job to the team!








  • A billion people tricked into using malware is still a billion people using malware. Telegram is a Russian spyware and misinformation machine. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/columns/2024/08/27/7472194/

    Putin’s Mouthpiece Demands Release of Durov (a likely fsb agent himself)

    Pavel Durov has secretly traveled to Russia more than 60 times between 2014 to 2022

    Durov concealed that he crossed the border more than 50 times from 2015 to 2022

    • Despite the story that “the FSB took Vkontakte away from Pavel in 2014”, his relationship with the Russian authorities 2015-present was good enough > that he was not afraid of being detained while entering, reentry& long stays & operations in Russia.

    • In response to the publication about his possible ties to Russia, Durov deliberately deceived Ukrainians and the general public, claiming that he > was an exile in Russia and that Telegram had “no ties” to Russia.

    • As proof of his lack of ties to Russia, Pavel claimed that he was no longer a Russian entrepreneur, had dual citizenship in France & the UAE.

    • After his arrest in France and the statements of the Russian authorities, we know that he has a valid Russian passport.

    • Russian authorities are demanding his release.

    Pavel Durov, telegrams owner, repeatedly crossed the border and concealed these 60+ trips into mother russia. For those familiar with Durov’s official position that he has become an exile and cannot return to his country, this fact alone should be interesting, as it probably means that Durov was not telling the truth about his conflict with the Russian authorities.

    But go ahead, keep using Telegram, товарищ.




  • The fact that Signal has not run into legal trouble when Telegram has.

    Because Signal cooperates as much as they can with law enforcement. Signal happily gives all the data they have and thankfully, for its users, the only data they have is the date/time the account was created and the date (not time) a client last pinged their servers; both in unix timestamp format, they don’t even convert it to a proper date.

    Additionally, Signal has no “public groups” like Telegram. Everything’s private, end-to-end encrypted by default.

    Also Signal has some really shady practices, such as rejecting and killing all third party clients.

    Yeah, so that’s outdated misinformation:

    Three of these have existed for multiple years and have not been asked to stop development. The gurk-rs dev even commented (on reddit, unfortunately I can’t find the source) that it reports to Signal’s server as a non-official client and that if the Signal devs wanted to block it, they could easily do so.