Misc                        Telegram No More                22 July 2025


   I've already given up on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram in the past,
   and now it's time to say goodbye to Telegram as well.  I won't be
   deleting my account there just yet, because plenty of my friends
   still use it and aren't planning to migrate anywhere else, but I'm no
   longer going to use the official Telegram clients.  Instead, I'm now
   using the mautrix-telegram bridge, which lets me chat with my
   Telegram contacts through Matrix.

   I really don't like the direction Telegram's development has taken:
   nowadays it looks like some sort of gambling app, seasoned with dodgy
   advertising.  Speaking of which, I don't get more spam from strangers
   anywhere else than I do on Telegram.  And this is despite the fact
   that Telegram has no proper support, which means you can lose your
   account or channel over complete nonsense: for instance, with
   channels, some troublemaker can simply deploy bots and report you for
   fake engagement.

   Originally, Telegram positioned itself as an app focused on privacy,
   but this was never actually true.  Telegram's only real advantage is
   its exceptionally good and polished UX/UI, but that's where its
   benefits end.  It doesn't have two-factor authentication (only two-
   step verification), no open server implementation, no end-to-end
   encryption in group chats, and even in private chats it's switched
   off by default.  And what's the story with the MTProto audit anyway?

   In short, I'm shutting down all my Telegram channels immediately.
   You can continue reading my weblog on my website or through RSS, and
   you can reach me on Matrix or by email.  My Matrix contact is in my
   profile description and is available to those who already have me in
   their contacts.  While Matrix isn't perfect, I'd rather use it than
   support the development of a platform whose privacy is based solely
   on the founder's word of honour.  Tschüss, Telegram!





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