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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•6 months agoI hate the labelling of Telegram (and also, to be fair here, WhatsApp) as social media platforms. That’s like saying email is a social media platform because mailing lists exist.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•6 months agoHang around the paleo-geek community enough and people will argue precisely that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoI’m actually all for it, since it draws a thick dividing line between a message app like Signal and insecure apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. When people hear “messaging” there is some expectation of privacy. When you hear “social media” it’s implied all of that is public.
I hate the labelling of Telegram (and also, to be fair here, WhatsApp) as social media platforms.
That’s like saying email is a social media platform because mailing lists exist.
Hang around the paleo-geek community enough and people will argue precisely that.
I’m actually all for it, since it draws a thick dividing line between a message app like Signal and insecure apps like WhatsApp and Telegram.
When people hear “messaging” there is some expectation of privacy. When you hear “social media” it’s implied all of that is public.