As mentioned in the title it seems that the discord server has been nuked. We will look into other options with similar design. It seems the same thing happened to other servers.
If you can contact people who are not in the telegram channel, tell them to go there please.
Yep. Discord tends to do that: banning entire servers and everyone in it. it is clear that it is wise to move to other platforms. Preferably self hosted and that are very, very easy to join and use.
Just got here, but have not heard good things about Telegram. Not end-to-end encrypted. Rumors of it being run by CIA, but I have no way of knowing if that’s true.
I am currently using Session for the family, it’s extremely secure and uses the Tor/Onion tech to route things around the world. Everything is encrypted, etc. But it’s a bit new and does not do audio/video like Discord yet.
That’s kind of ironic, given that Tor/Onion actually received funding from the US Navy. lol
From what I know, Telegram was created by a Russian tech mogul who occasionally cucks out to governments here and there, so the app doesn’t get taken down. For instance, if you have phone number from a NATO country, you can’t view RT and Sputnik channels.
Yes, Tor was developed by the Navy AFAIK. But that doesn’t make the tech insecure or mean there’s a backdoor somewhere.
Your post reminded me of another reason I refused to consider Telegram. They require a phone number right? I don’t like giving extra PII to any site or service. Negates the encryption and anonymity the platform supposedly espouses.
I am not sure about the logic behind there being no backdoors to a technology that was developed by the same government that has admitted on spying on its own people.
The phone number part is true, but that can easily be circumvented by simply getting a burner number that you use only for telegram, if you’re so inclined. As for me, telegram is playing an ever-increasing role in an average person’s life in Russia, thanks to the conflict. People use it to get information in warzones, whole news channels are set up there, even local governments are starting to use telegram as a PSA platform, so I personally have no choice but to keep using it. Especially now that most Russian news channels and commentators have been banned off youtube and other western sock media.