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   Silver Huskey (silver_huskey@fandom.ink)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Feb-2026 06:05:00 JST Silver Huskey

   Going the YouTube route of determining age, huh? We'll see how well it works out. That said, I need to better keep up with Telegram, because I suspect quite a few people will likely leave Discord on principle. Stay or go, don't give them a face scan or your ID!

   https://www.theverge.com/tech/876575/discord-age-verification-vast-majority-users-inference

   #Discord

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     Silver Huskey (silver_huskey@fandom.ink)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Feb-2026 12:07:38 JST Silver Huskey

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     • Luna Lactea

     @jackemled I haven't heard about anything regarding needing ID or a face scan regarding Telegram. I'm not moving there, I've been there, just not as active as Discord. I've just heard a few friends say they want to use it more. No one in my friends group is using Signal or Matrix. Nor do they want to.

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     Luna Lactea (jackemled@furry.engineer)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Feb-2026 12:07:39 JST Luna Lactea

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     @silver_huskey Isn't Telegram much worse than Discord even after the stuff they're starting next month though? Switching to Telegram is probably not a good idea.

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     Luna Lactea (jackemled@furry.engineer)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Feb-2026 13:00:35 JST Luna Lactea

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     @silver_huskey The issues with Telegram are:

     • owned & run by neonazis
     • years old unpatched vulnerabilities in app
     • refusal to fix unsafe & ineffective cryptography, which is off by default anyway & very hidden
     • advertises their app as super ultra mega secure, but it has more holes than a fishnet
     • shares user data with police too freely, including for things like people being gay in countries where it's illegal to be gay
     • dumped 26GiB. of my nudes, tax documents, & other files into a groupchat completely on its own for no fucking reason before I was able to turn on airplane mode, kill the app's processes, & get a group moderator to delete everything
     • anti LGBT
     • requires phone number
     • nazi dogwhistles in their blog posts
     • premium lets you ignore other users' privacy settings
     • crashes if someone sends a GIF

     The only issue Telegram doesn't have yet is requiring you scan your face & government ID for them. Matrix is almost worth dealing with, assuming it's somehow your only other option.

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     Silver Huskey (silver_huskey@fandom.ink)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Feb-2026 13:00:35 JST Silver Huskey

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     • Luna Lactea

     @jackemled Oh, that. Yeah, I know about most of it. Again, most people know and kinda refuse to leave anyway. If that wasn't enough to get people over to Signal, I doubt much else will do it, beyond ID requirements. I have tried, and been let down immensely. I just treat Telegram as being secure as having a conversation in public.