I’m from Mexico, and the most used chat application is WhatsApp. It’s used for EVERYTHING. I use Telegram only for contacting my family members (both my parents and my brother). They also use it only for this family chat. All my (and their) contacts use WhatsApp instead.

Now with the news that Telegram will collaborate with Twitter, I feel that I should delete it. Not that Zuck is any better than Musk, but still…

Also I don’t think it’s worth the effort to teach my parents yet another messaging app, like signal.

        • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Its what makes it more secure. Why do you need a chat app that allows your parents to accidentally stumble into a group of con artists or kids to stumble into things they shouldn’t be exposed to? It’s a messaging app, not gamer group chat.

          This is what puts is way ahead of the others.

          • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            23 hours ago

            Also, making it harder for pedophiles to find each other and groups where they can share their shit is a good way to defeat all the shitty “think about the children” laws that European countries are constantly trying to pass to make encryption illegal

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      There’s a search bar which will filter your conversations, and you can create a new group with new message (pen icon) ->new group