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      It’s the best app when it comes to functionality. It has it all.

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          • You can schedule messages
          • Have supergroups, subgroups, broadcasts, admin roles in groups,…
          • Channels can be configured in various ways. For example, you can post messages and choose the type of previews links render.
          • You can add voting options to posts
          • Members of the channel can only reply in threads so the replies are bundled.
          • You can decide wheter new group members can view chat history or not.
          • Members can be muted.
          • Bots can be built withing the app
          • Chats can be arranged in folders *…

          I could go on.

          • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Ok, I see. Telegram tries to combine Discord, WhatsApp and WeChat, but it isn’t a great replacement for either of them.

            Discord has groups, chanels, threaded conversations, allows you to mute people, great support for bots, folders, etc. Signal is much better for private chats though, it has a very secure encryption protocol and enables E2EE by default and is very focused on privacy in general. Btw Signal also allows scheduling messages. I tried Telegram for both groups/chanels and private chats and I found it really annoying to have my groups and channels in the same app as my normal conversations. Just use Signal and Discord/Matrix/Revolt.

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              I get it. That’s why I use Plus messenger. It’s a better, more customisable UI. Private chats, groups and channels are on a different page, if you want it.

              Unfortunately I use Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Element (Matrix) and SimpleX all combined because my contacts are spread out. Looking forward to secure interoperability.

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      8 months ago

      Matrix is good for personal communications too The us companies made you to use phone numbers for chatting Id’s are convenient

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        I mean, sure, you can use Matrix for personal chats. It’s perfectly secure, but it’s not as easy to use as Signal. For example, if I told my grandma to install Element and send me her Matrix ID, she would be really confused. Signal is very easy to use, and the user experience is basically the same as on mainstream platforms like WhatsApp. I also don’t think that the phone number requirement is a US thing, as Telegram also has it. Signal only requires phone numbers to prevent spam, but they recently introduced usernames, so you don’t have to give people your phone number in order for them to message you.

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          Element is just a piece of shit. Matrix is fine for almost all use cases. If you actually need metadata protection use Session.