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.
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.
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.
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.