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For those affected by the blocks, Signal recommends turning on its censorship circumvention feature.

Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries.

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[–] rdri@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used telegram during all that time in Russia. It did circumvent the shit out of the RKN. I guess you used somewhat limited data to learn something from Russia.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did they circumvent it? Seems highly unlikely to me that Russia secceeds with every centralized service but not with Telegram.

[–] rdri@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Others didn't try to circumvent much because Russian market is usually too small for any app to care. Telegram's user base is historically huge is Russia.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nah man. Sounds phishy af.

I'd not recommend any Russian to use Telegram as a daily driver for anything other than a public forum. It's not designed with privacy and security in mind. Default chats aren't even encrypted and your profile and social graph is in plain text on their servers. Wouldn't risk using that just because someone said it's circumventing a blockage.

[–] rdri@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

You seem to have a detailed opinion about something you hardly even used, or researched. It's fine, you don't have to like it and I don't care. But I will point out mistakes.

Most people do use it for public communication only. Not in plain text. Telegram was popular even before it started circumventing anything.