Comment by snotrockets
2 years ago
Telegram isn't a messaging service. It's a social network with a messenger UI. Quite ingenious, if you'd ask me, but a social network and a private messenger can't really be reconciled into a single product.
2 years ago
Telegram isn't a messaging service. It's a social network with a messenger UI. Quite ingenious, if you'd ask me, but a social network and a private messenger can't really be reconciled into a single product.
What would you classify Signal as, with its stickers, cryptocurrency (MobileCoin), etc.?
I think "social" in this context refers to frictionless friend finding, not stickers. Good privacy involves a certain level of friction, with PGP verification being a classic example of the UX problem space.
Signal is one-to-one or many-to-many.
Telegram is mostly few-to-many.