Rita Wulff

@Varewulf

I Am A Delight

she/her
twitter.com/Varewulf

Old queer trans woman from Norway. Mainly post in English. I write stuff sometimes. Expect bad jokes. Girls and cats are nice.

Rita Wulff @Varewulf8/14/2024, 3:15 AM

Vanellope @cybergirlvannie

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/13/2024, 7:07 PM

I just got randomly banned for no reason from Telegram.

Un-fucking-believable. Account's just suddenly deleted.

#Telegram #freaking out

Plum @plumpan8/13/2024, 7:13 PM

Telegram can no longer be the default messaging program for queer furries

It's full of fashies, it has zero moderation, you can literally get banned for no reason and all of your chats are gone.

I really do not like Discord, but it is still better. Signal better still. Get all of your friend's email addresses.

#Telegram

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/13/2024, 8:30 PM

I absolutely need to diversify my IM presence (and you should too)

I didn't think this could happen to me, but here we are. I was so busy trying to pick another IM service that most of my friends are on so I can have Just One More And That's It, that I never made any new accounts at all. It's amazing that so many of my friends checked in on me on Discord so quickly.

I'm weirdly not that upset about this. I thought I would be. I'll still try to recover the account but I'll be fine without it.

What's unfortunate is that I haven't heard good things about Signal so much as the least bad things. I've heard from so many furries that Telegram is the only platform with reliable notifications that never fail, but I've heard from a few that Signal ate all of their message history.

But having options is more important than having nothing.

#Telegram #online presence

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Zzyzx Wolfe @Zzyzx8/13/2024, 7:23 PM

No, what!? I need your noises and smells.

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/13/2024, 8:04 PM

Hopefully won't be gone long! Worst case I'll start looking at other platforms where I should have made accounts ages ago.

𓅇 Chase J 𓅊 - lv 33 🍜🐲@chasejxyz8/13/2024, 7:33 PM

Noooooo

If you ou end up making another account, you can send me an ask on here and I can re add you to stuff

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/13/2024, 7:49 PM

I'm emailing support to see if they can unban me. If that doesn't work I'll worry about it then...

@wubwah8/13/2024, 8:24 PM

Oh fuck i was so shocked when i just randomly saw your account Deleted. That fucking SUCKS. Here's hoping Telegram support can do something...

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/13/2024, 8:28 PM

I'm extremely grateful that so many people care about me. It's not the end of the world, but I do hope support can help, yeah.

@uber8/13/2024, 8:24 PM

glad i saw this cuz i was real worried when i saw ur acct was gone

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/13/2024, 8:29 PM

Imagine how I felt suddenly logged out XD

@uber8/13/2024, 8:34 PM

sent u a steam friend inv and sent an ask abt it so u know who is me lol

Spazzy @SpazzySpitz8/13/2024, 8:38 PM

Nooooo! 😰 I hope you're able to get it resolved through support (also I've always thought you're cool and I'd miss you there :x )

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/13/2024, 8:43 PM

I hope so too. I'm extremely grateful so many people care about me but I should really get on more IM platforms so some BS like this doesn't just cut me off...

Spazzy @SpazzySpitz9/9/2024, 8:28 PM

So uh, any other good places to find you once cohost goes brrrrt?

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev9/9/2024, 8:42 PM

I only actively use the accounts in my sidebar anymore... I heard you posted them in that group we have in common, thanks for that!

Tarukai788 @Tarukai8/13/2024, 10:59 PM

Girl i got so fucking worried when i saw your account showing as deleted, that fucking sucks ass! I'm looking forward to seeing you back on there and chatting again, lemme know if you need my @ or something or adding back to some groups! <3

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/13/2024, 11:01 PM

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind! 💙

Tarukai788 @Tarukai8/14/2024, 12:52 AM

Hey so i'm trying to add you via your discord link in your bio but discord is stupid and hates actual working functionality and simply takes me to a list of my friends in both browser and app. What's your discord username please?

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/14/2024, 12:57 AM

It's in the parenthesis next to the platform name! I heard the link sometimes doesn't work for people so I added that

Tarukai788 @Tarukai8/14/2024, 1:04 AM

Ohhh I'm just illiterate then lol. Also, it looked like I got a notif that you requested to add me as a friend, then I went to accept and initiated the friend request myself hahaha. I am in fact the dog getting hit by the frisbee on discord (and go by Tarukai788 there) X3

Spruce!@sprcboi8/13/2024, 11:24 PM

Dang that really sucks :c I hope tele can get it resolved,,
I was like "oh no what happened?/is something wrong" when I saw the deleted acc next to your admin tag

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/13/2024, 11:27 PM

I wouldn't have deleted it on purpose, that was my main IM platform! But yeah, I'm OK, and it's not a big deal. And I should really diversify...

Variscite @Variscite8/14/2024, 12:29 AM

Oh what the fuck. :(

Glad to see you're alright, though. Not the first time I've seen this, frustratingly - local friend just went through the same shit.

Fuck, I miss the days when we had a bunch of different options.

Vio @viogote8/14/2024, 3:12 PM

miss you burd

S-573 - Smashing Wedge (SPH)@K8SRGL8/14/2024, 10:12 PM

ohhhh that explains what happened

wtf telegram???

Maff @maff8/15/2024, 3:58 PM

i wondered why you had been so quiet recently ;w; am trying to see if i can help at all.
what does it say when you try to log back in? does it try to create a new account or does it say you're banned?

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/15/2024, 4:08 PM

It says my phone number is banned, straight up.

I've already gotten help from other friends that reached out! I sent an email to support and I'm waiting for them to (hopefully) unban the number.

Miff @Miff8/16/2024, 3:56 AM

You could possibly roll a new Google Voice number to create a new account like all the spammers and cyberbullies do.

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ira 🌷🐰@irina8/13/2024, 8:03 PM

i've never quite understood why telegram became the 'default'.

the only other groups I know of that use it are like, fascists, drug dealers, terrorists, and russians. why would i ever touch it with a ten foot pole!

Plum @plumpan8/13/2024, 8:06 PM

I have no idea either, like who was using it before NaL stickers became a thing???

"but it's secure" it is NOT secure unless you use private chats and even then I would NOT trust it.

ira 🌷🐰@irina8/13/2024, 8:11 PM

and like - very few people honestly care if your furry hangout group is secure. no technology is gonna stop someone screenshotting it.

if you want it secure, use signal! or one of those crime phones!

Plum @plumpan8/13/2024, 8:12 PM

My next like 9 months is going to be trying and failing to 'sell' people on signal I guess

Misty @dog8/13/2024, 9:35 PM

My wife ended up setting up a Matrix server for our friend group, but that's one of those things that's definitely not going to work for most people. Glad it's gotten us all off Telegram though

Plum @plumpan8/13/2024, 9:40 PM

Unfortunately a lot of the best solutions to problems like this are "this is great if you're already a HUGE techie".

I've thought a lot about how contact syncing would work to any non local device and it's all "ok well I hope you know how to run a secure network endpoint of SOME fashion from home" basically. Can't really suggest anyone do that.

@nyxe8/13/2024, 10:25 PM

oh what
i don't use it for messaging anymore but that's where all my old contacts are and all the leftist/queer groups and activism news channels and ressource-sharing it would suck so much if my acc got deleted. just why- why would they do that. i've also had it since like 2016 & my account is still tied to my old number that i haven't used for like 4 years now... but at least the people i actually want to message use signal

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/13/2024, 10:48 PM

I highly recommend changing the phone number to something you actually control and can receive text messages, right now. Ideally a phone number on a real SIM card and not a VoIP number because you'll have to get support after setting a VoIP number too...

Someone else I know had a random account ban and after getting it unbanned they couldn't SMS 2FA so the account was still unrecoverable.

Plum @plumpan8/13/2024, 10:51 PM

In general not having access to the number on the account is very very risky because anyone that has that number can gain complete control of the account.

in reply to @lapisnev's post:

Plum @plumpan8/13/2024, 8:32 PM

I've heard of others having issues with Signal before but I've not had any (yet). It's fine for me.

I think the only real solution is to keep contact info locally

@uber8/13/2024, 8:37 PM

only really bad thing i seen so far is there is no way to migrate message history across platforms (i.e. from android to ios or vice versa)

Plum @plumpan8/13/2024, 8:40 PM

Do they not sync if you're active on both?

I know that existing message history doesn't sync to new devices, which is a bit annoying but very much makes sense. Contacts not syncing also makes sense but is more annoying.

@uber8/13/2024, 8:42 PM

well if you have both an android and an ios phone on all the time i guess it's fine but if you're just switching to android or ios its not . u can migrate message history i know for sure from one android phone to another but can't do that across platform