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minus-squareNoxy@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down1·3 months agoWhen you can’t use secret chat at ALL on desktop, fuck no it isn’t. Assuming end-to-end encryption is what’s meant in the question.
minus-squaremrvictory1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoThat’s a step backwards from Whatsapp lol
minus-squareNoxy@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·3 months agoIt’s still shit tho. Signal is better.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 months agoYou can with Pidgin and purple-tdlib plugin for Telegram. But then I’d ask the other person to use the same thing, and we’d both use OTR for encryption, not TG’s bogus E2EE.
minus-squareNoxy@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agowow I haven’t used Pidgin in like a decade
When you can’t use secret chat at ALL on desktop, fuck no it isn’t.
Assuming end-to-end encryption is what’s meant in the question.
That’s a step backwards from Whatsapp lol
It’s still shit tho. Signal is better.
As is Sessions
You can with Pidgin and purple-tdlib plugin for Telegram.
But then I’d ask the other person to use the same thing, and we’d both use OTR for encryption, not TG’s bogus E2EE.
wow I haven’t used Pidgin in like a decade