Many in the crypto and privacy community mistakenly trust Telegram because it’s “end to end encrypted”, but there are huge issues including not hiding the metadata, censorship, centralization, and phone numbers.
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    1 year ago

    I dont know what happened, but unfortunately that article is misinformation.

    I was excited to sign up for telegram without a phone number, but the very first thing it asks you when you open the app is to enter your phone number. It won’t let you proceed without it.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not misinformation, but it’s also not free. You have to “get a fake number” of sorts from the Fragment blockchain.

      I don’t know much about those specifics because I live in the US, and fragment doesn’t work here (due to conflicting views with the FEC). In theory, a VPN might let you do what you want even if you are in the US.

      https://fragment.com/numbers

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        1 year ago

        That article was written in Dec 2022. either something was lost in translation or Telegram ditched the idea.

        As stated before, you cannot use telegram without a phone number, which is a threat to security, anonymity, and privacy.