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+title: "Farewell Telegram - Hello Signal!"
+date: 2021-12-17T20:51:00+02:00
+draft: false
+categories: [www]
+tags: [www]
+url: /posts/farewell-telegram-hello-signal/
+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.
+And all old messengers like ICQ more or less were abandoned by everybody I know including myself ;=)
+
+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.
+Most other platforms at least try to do so.
+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 ;=)
+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.