So I've joined your running club or whatever.
Hm, okay you have a Telegram. Let me install it.
The screen I'm presented with upon trying to log in
FUCK
FUCK YOU
i guess i'll pay
FUCK YOU
FUCK YOU
FUCK YOU
FUCK YOU
FUCK YOU
"You are doing this to yourself"
Did you try turning off your VPN?
Shouldn't have disabled the location permission
What you're using Linux/Graphene OS/… What are you some kind of criminal?
Why are you even making an account in 2026. Are you a scammer?
Are you listening to yourself? You sound like a battered wife. No I should not have to pass a fuckign background check to be able to talk to people. What the fuck is wrong with you?
"We need legislation"
I mean kinda? Giving the fucks responsible their well deserved capital punishment would be cathargic.
But let's be real, you are doing this to everyone else. The cure is literally sliding your fat fingers down to the app store and pressing the install button on Signal.
Oh, but no one uses it
FUCK YOU
Oh, but it doesn't give me a shiny blinking interface for finding a date where everyone can play Fortnite
Oh, but we need sub-micro threads to organize all the splinter groups in our leftist knitting circle
Have you tried making multiple group chats. Also FUCK YOU
Yes we need legislation. Also you're giving five years of chatlog with your girlfriend to these fucks because you were too lazy to install an app.
You're giving some company in Dubai a comically large button with "make all queer people in this city unable to talk to each other" written on it (seriously, why are you all using telegram AAAA).
Have you heard about age verification, chat control? What if they did that but no one showed up everyone just used end to end encrypted open source chat apps.
You can just stop. Maybe don't run screaming and crying every time you don't understand something. Ask your local weird nerd for help. Here is a list of alternatives you fuck.
A list of alternatives
- Telegram -> Signal
- Whatsapp -> Signal
- Snapchat -> Signal + looking at an adfly link
- Discord -> Element, also Signal
For the slow readers: JUST USE SIGNAL
Also look at this https://www.privacytools.io/privacy-messaging if you decide securing your heartfelt conversations is worth a few minutes of reading on the shitter.