• smiletolerantlyEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    I hate the labelling of Telegram (and also, to be fair here, WhatsApp) as social media platforms.

    That’s like saying email is a social media platform because mailing lists exist.

    • geriksonEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Hang around the paleo-geek community enough and people will argue precisely that.

    • V0ldekEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m actually all for it, since it draws a thick dividing line between a message app like Signal and insecure apps like WhatsApp and Telegram.

      When people hear “messaging” there is some expectation of privacy. When you hear “social media” it’s implied all of that is public.