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Why do most people choose to use WhatsApp over telegram?? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Frub@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Telegram is just actually superior in terms of features I don't get it.

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[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't understand the love for Telegram.

In the short period of using it I had so much BS come through by scammers/spammers - both as DMs and group messages. I've rarely had that with WhatsApp.

In my eyes WhatsApp is far better than Telegram. And Signal is far greater than WhatsApp. The only thing I wish Signal had was inbuilt GIFs; it's not that much of an issue on mobile but it's a pain on desktop.

[–] silvercove@lemdro.id 1 points 2 years ago

Telegram is more user friendly than Whatsapp, it's clients are open source and has a decent desktop app.

It's way better than Zuck's trash.

[–] Tuss@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've had way more scam calls, groups and texts on whatsapp than on Telegram.

So I definitely don't understand why anyone would like whatsapp.

With Telegram you can easily limit any communication requests to only come from your list of contacts while that is impossible with WA. The only way you can get out of getting scam calls is by turning on "mute unknown calls" and "limit groups to contacts" but the calls will still pop up and you will still get chat requests so you will have to block and delete each one of them manually.

Instead of just limiting all communication to your contacts like on telegram.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe the same settings are also in WhatsApp.

[–] Tuss@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

No in whatsapp you can't limit requests to only your contacts. It's only with groups. I've checked and googled.