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Telegram is one of the most popular messaging tools, chosen by many online services to stay connected with their audiences. Major shadow libraries Z-Library and Anna's Archive used Telegram until this week, when both accounts were terminated for copyright infringement. While these websites offer infringing content, both were cautious to avoid copyright troubles on Telegram.

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[–] anti_lib@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 hours ago

What a bunch of pussies

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

But it’s okay to use them to train LLMs…

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

isn't this the same telegram whose ceo was arrested for helping proliferate csam

[–] anti_lib@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 hours ago

They don't give a shit about child abuse or pedophilia. There's no money to be made there. It's about copyright and political censorship.

[–] Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org 44 points 22 hours ago

Just put Telegram in the same pool with Discord, Skype, Teams and all that. They're more at home there and no longer the status of for the people.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Time to go to the cesspool Matrix unfortunately

[–] 0x30507DE@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

sad XMPP noises

[–] blicante@moist.catsweat.com 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Why is matrix a cesspool? What makes it more of a cesspool than telegram?

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

CSAM bots advertising illegal telegram groups. Absolutely disgusting. These were prevalent in multiple public channels including the piracy one that I briefly checked out.

I understand matrix is completely unregulated, but I don't want to see even the words describing such filth

[–] anti_lib@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 hours ago

It's not completely unregulated at all. The mods totally have the power to ban bots, just find a place that's actually moderated at all

[–] blicante@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Did that not exist on telegram? How did telegram manage it?

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Not to the piracy channels that I'm on now. They're moderated.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 8 points 16 hours ago

Moderated matrix channels don't seem to have these bots. Idk I found these bots too on some public channels, I left thinking those channels were fake.

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Or just one massive signal group chat

[–] blicante@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 22 hours ago (3 children)
[–] whalebiologist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 hours ago

Is it just me or does signal seem like an NSA honeypot?

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Lol you madlads

PS methinks you should delete your link after some time, 24 hours at the most.

[–] pezhore@infosec.pub 1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

How do signal chats work if I already use signal with my full name? Can I say for a group chat to just use my nick instead?

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 15 hours ago

I run a second Signal for that in the secure folder of my Samsung phone.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 17 hours ago

You'd need a second Signal instance. There's only global privacy options.

[–] Oestradiolo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago

Euh it is still to young IMO. And NOT user friendly, you pretty much need to self host or it is very centralized in the way it works. Which is partially due to it not having many users yet.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

They need to ban CSAM telegram bots in Matrix first

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Wait what that's a thing?... A sad world we live in.