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title: "Farewell Telegram - Hello Signal!"
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date: 2021-12-17T20:51:00+02:00
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draft: false
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categories: [www]
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tags: [www]
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url: /posts/farewell-telegram-hello-signal/
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author: "Christoph Cullmann"
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In the last few years I started to use Telegram as my main messenger, beside good old SMS/e-mail.
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I never used WhatsApp as I try to stay away from the Facebook/Meta/... ecosystem.
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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.
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And all old messengers like ICQ more or less were abandoned by everybody I know including myself ;=)
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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.
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Yes, you can say: this is free speech.
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It is.
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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.
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Telegram isn't interested in even deleting the most obvious lies or hate speech that is spread in masses there.
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Most other platforms at least try to do so.
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At least this is the impression I came to in the last few months.
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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.
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Therefore I abandoned my Telegram account this week.
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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.
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My Signal account is: +49 176 235 467 98
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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 ;=)
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Should have started to use that since long anyways, after I somehow went away from IRC years ago.
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Therefore, if you fail to contact me via Telegram, that is no accident, that is intended, sorry if that might be inconvenient.
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