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diff --git a/content/posts/farewell-telegram-hello-signal.md b/content/posts/farewell-telegram-hello-signal.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0183b95..0000000 --- a/content/posts/farewell-telegram-hello-signal.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ ---- -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" ---- - - -In the last few years I started to use Telegram as my main messenger, beside good old SMS/e-mail. - -I never used WhatsApp as I try to stay away from the Facebook/Meta/... ecosystem. - -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. - -Yes, you can say: this is free speech. - -It is. - -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. - -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. - -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. - -Therefore I abandoned my Telegram account this week. - -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. - -My Signal account is: +49 176 235 467 98 - -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. - -Therefore, if you fail to contact me via Telegram, that is no accident, that is intended, sorry if that might be inconvenient. |