Raake

Part-time human, full-time critter

  • she/they/it

A shapeshifter of sorts
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ShugoWah
@ShugoWah

so, uh. the messenger service telegram dropped some pretty explicit nazi dog whistles in an official update announcement today???

EDIT: the 1488 reference was chanaged overnight, but the animation containing it is still accessible https://telegram.org/file/400780400829/2/9G2hKqsNaqg.2021642.mp4/16e2e9bf552b9fd439


ShugoWah
@ShugoWah

man. now I have to delete my fucking telegram account too? or just try to painfully pretend I never saw this and hope my private conversations are safe in the hands of these people??? fuck off


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in reply to @ShugoWah's post:

Oh hey bonus point: They taken a bunch of channel names hostage into that username selling platform (and the minimum rn ~300$) if your channel was not active for a while at the moment when they seeded it

And in their update post about this they just kinda... complained about "damn iranian spammers" or smth.

I lost a funny channel name this way :c But others lost gateway channels and such, the stuff that just does not require any sort of updates much/at all.

And there was 0 warning for any of it! They just... poof, gone, pay up

Wait are the funny flag huffers still using 1488? I know it's a certified hood classic amongst their ranks, I'm just getting whiplash from being sent so far back in time. I guess 4/20 is still one of those too, and I am filling a jar with quarters based on how many conservatives say 'degenerate'.

Maaan Telegram already doesn't get my vote, this is just prestigeing my disinterest in the application.

Most of them know it is known.
So they put it there. A nod and a wink because they know, it is a thrill.

The veneer of plausible deniability is gone.

Also yean, 4/20 is hitler's birthday.
THat is why.

this really isn't a surprise to me but I guess I've seen a lot of the horrific category of people that use telegram more than most
telegram has been infested with Bade Shit for like half a decade or more at this point

oh this is news to me lol... i mean now that i look it up, the only "security" it provides is an optional e2e mode they rolled themselves and the fact that they're hosted out of dubai, how did they get people to trust them at all as a signal alternative

man, me and my friends have been using it as our primary messenger since way before any shady shit started happening. i don't want to lose our friend group history, but holy shit this is creepy

UPDATE: i shared this post with them and now we're discussing alternatives to try. we've seen signal recommended, but are there other messengers similar to telegram worth trying?

incredibly funny that every bit of sample content is AI generated save for a.) the founder's profile and b.) tucker carlson's profile. like they're not really doing anything subtle here

in reply to @ShugoWah's post:

I do not understand why people seem so adverse to Signal. I've only been using it for a month or whatever but it feels more or less like Telegram does to me? What am I missing here?

Like seriously please help me out

The interface sucks shit, the desktop software is an Electron app that barely works and only by being linked to a phone, it loses the link to the phone for no reason, it constantly gets logged out on my phone or fails to notify me that I've got a message, and it lacks a tremendous swath of functionality that I use basically every day on Telegram

I've lost all my messages on Signal twice. Never happened on Telegram.

I've had much better luck with it so far at least, as far as it just working normally goes. Every now and then it takes a moment to send a message, that's about the most aggro it's given me.

What features that you use a lot is are missing?

That's f*ed up.
But honestly not surprising.

Telegram has pulling a lot of shit and cuddling up to fashos is just part of the program.
At home it's already know as the messenger choice of fascists and conspiracy theories and asking someone if they have telegram usually a good metric if they're a decent human being or not.

But will this change anything?
No of course not.
Look at all the shit X is pulling and 90% of the fandom still stays on there.

Telegram could be giving a list of private information of all queer users to hate groups and they'd all stay on it anyway 🙄