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qskousen 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

That's a good point. I looked into using Matrix before I switched to Signal, but the user experience just in creating an account was pretty abysmal, at least at the time. As I was recommending it to non-tech people, I ended up going with Signal.

tamimio 7 months ago [–]

> but the user experience just in creating an account was pretty abysmal

I agree it was, probably better now, but for the average person, it’s too much to “process” compared to just adding your phone number and signing up.

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