From 0f19f2e8eb77291a133194a34938fb36fd3d123b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Cullmann Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 20:53:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] farewell telegram --- .../posts/farewell-telegram-hello-signal.md | 42 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/posts/farewell-telegram-hello-signal.md diff --git a/content/posts/farewell-telegram-hello-signal.md b/content/posts/farewell-telegram-hello-signal.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0183b95 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/farewell-telegram-hello-signal.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +title: "Farewell Telegram - Hello Signal!" +date: 2021-12-17T20:51:00+02:00 +draft: false +categories: [www] +tags: [www] +url: /posts/farewell-telegram-hello-signal/ +author: "Christoph Cullmann" +--- + + +In the last few years I started to use Telegram as my main messenger, beside good old SMS/e-mail. + +I never used WhatsApp as I try to stay away from the Facebook/Meta/... ecosystem. + +Telegram seemed like a good choice as a lot of people I know are there and we e.g. mirror our KDE channels often to Telegram for better outreach, too. +And all old messengers like ICQ more or less were abandoned by everybody I know including myself ;=) + +Unfortunately, during the [current pandemic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic), I met more and more people that went down into the rabbit hole thanks to totally uncontrolled Telegram groups. + +Yes, you can say: this is free speech. + +It is. + +But on the other side, I think it can't really be tolerated that people start to live in some parallel universe that completely ignores any science/laws/facts of the real world. + +Telegram isn't interested in even deleting the most obvious lies or hate speech that is spread in masses there. +Most other platforms at least try to do so. +At least this is the impression I came to in the last few months. + +I talked with people in person that live in such state of denial and I can't any longer use some application/network/service that encourages the spreading of such stuff. + +Therefore I abandoned my Telegram account this week. + +If you want to stay in touch with me via some messenger and not plain good e-mail, I use [Signal](https://signal.org/) now, at least this seems to be not as awful as Telegram looks for me now. + +My Signal account is: +49 176 235 467 98 + +I will participate in the KDE & Kate related channels via [Matrix](https://matrix.org/), e.g. thanks to [NeoChat](https://apps.kde.org/neochat/) and other free clients ;=) +Should have started to use that since long anyways, after I somehow went away from IRC years ago. + +Therefore, if you fail to contact me via Telegram, that is no accident, that is intended, sorry if that might be inconvenient.