Telegram Discord, Signal thread. Kind of similar to the kik app thread.

[roomandu]

Hmmmmmm....
I was on discord for a while. Mostly for gaming stuff.
The others I'm not familiar with.
Being old and still remember using the Abacus in primary school, these interweb thing's, can be quite the quandary...

 

[StacheDiamond]

Come on over, Skype users

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/microsoft-hangs-up-on-skype-service-to-shut-down-may-5-2025/

 

[Surferdude1891]

I use telegram and signal

 

[Dmiller85001]

Don’t like Telegram b/c of the phone number thing.

Signal for the win with Kik as a close 2d choice.

-Dave

 

[StacheDiamond]

No one knows your phone number on Telegram unless you allow it.

 

[Dmiller85001]

No one know your phone number on Telegram unless you allow it.

Telegram knows.

 

[TemptmeTameme]

Don’t like Telegram b/c of the phone number thing.

Signal for the win with Kik as a close 2d choice.

-Dave

Agreed. I hate that your number is on telegram..how the hell is that a private way to chat?

 

[StacheDiamond]

Agreed. I hate that your number is on telegram..how the hell is that a private way to chat?

It’s only used for account creation and logging in. You create a username/handle, and that’s how people look you up. No one from my address book or a spammer has ever contacted me via telegram with my phone number because it’s hidden.

Unless you unhide it. But that would be an intentional choice!

Most chat apps other than Signal, Wire, encrypted Telegram use an email address but store chats in plaintext on its servers. That is less private than telegram. All a capable hacker needs is one person with a bad password to access an entire server’s worth of chat.

With telegram’s phone number authentication, a hacker would have to spoof your phone number.

 

[TemptmeTameme]

It’s only used for account creation and logging in. You create a username/handle, and that’s how people look you up. No one from my address book or a spammer has ever contacted me via telegram with my phone number because it’s hidden.

Unless you unhide it. But that would be an intentional choice!

Most chat apps other than Signal, Wire, encrypted Telegram use an email address but stores chats in plaintext on its servers. That is less private than telegram. All a capable hacker needs is one person with a bad password to access an entire server’s worth of chat.

With telegram’s phone number authentication, a hacker would have to spoof your phone number.

True. You can hide your number but it defaults to showing it when you sign up. And then alerted people in my contacts that I created an account even though I never gave it permission to access my contacts and do that. It just didn't give me warm and fuzzy vibes.

 

[StacheDiamond]

True. You can hide your number but it defaults to showing it when you sign up. And then alerted people in my contacts that I created an account even though I never gave it permission to access my contacts and do that. It just didn't give me warm and fuzzy vibes.

Yeah that’s certainly disconcerting. I made the mistake of allow contacts access and spent several minutes hyperventilating! I hit the wrong button.

Wire and Session are great as is Signal, but I use Signal for real life. And on this website, one does not mix business with pleasure!

 

[FaryalHijabi]

i was on telegram but lost access to my account but hope to be there soon if i meet the right man here

 

[Mrlighthouse]

Telegram here

 

[Curious4more2020]

On telegram here also for fun chats.

 

[TemptmeTameme]

pm for telegram

34 f

 

[Dmiller85001]

@DMiller410 on Telegram.

Always glad to chat with new friends.

-Dave

 

[ScottMtl]

44 professional/conversational bi curious mwm here for the same

I love using telegram to chat & trade

 

[ScottMtl]

It’s only used for account creation and logging in. You create a username/handle, and that’s how people look you up. No one from my address book or a spammer has ever contacted me via telegram with my phone number because it’s hidden.

Unless you unhide it. But that would be an intentional choice!

Most chat apps other than Signal, Wire, encrypted Telegram use an email address but store chats in plaintext on its servers. That is less private than telegram. All a capable hacker needs is one person with a bad password to access an entire server’s worth of chat.

With telegram’s phone number authentication, a hacker would have to spoof your phone number.

Exactly

 

[nsa69kink]

Telegram too

 

[sunset_dreaming]

Definitely sitting on the outside here. Have only ever used Wire and was more than happy with it.

Being another in the ‘abacus user’ group, I feel all those app-y things are just too hard…

 

[FaryalHijabi]

i was on telegram but lost access to my account but hope to be there soon if i meet the right man here

 

[ned63]

i was on telegram but lost access to my account but hope to be there soon if i meet the right man here

Put your name back in and should get you on again mmmm

 

[Hornymwtxn]

Same thing happened to me. I logged back in but no contacts.

I only had one friend on there so Bryan if you see this, message me again bc I can't find you

Hello again.
I sent you a pm here on lit.
Glad you reached back out to me! Because you are a very fun and interesting person who I enjoy chatting with

 

[FaryalHijabi]

I am on simpleX app it works via a one time link to anyone you send it to so you have complete privacy

 

[FaryalHijabi]

Hello again.
I sent you a pm here on lit.
Glad you reached back out to me! Because you are a very fun and interesting person who I enjoy chatting with

Happy to chat with you both

 

[Liberia]

Voting for Signal. Light, fast, needn't show a phone number. Group-capable.

And not for nothing, it's their encryption method (open source) that everyone else uses and so far as anyone knows, hasn't been cracked (I assume the NSA has, but they haven't shared that with other agencies). No metadata, no logs.

You can't delete everything for both parties though. I agree their encryption is even better than Telegram though.