Telegram and Ello as safe alternatives in social networks

Hello is a new social network that is actually quite good, what ails him the same as Telegram lacks users who use them. Although Telegram already boasts of having 300 million users (more than on Twitter).

What is Telegram?

Telegram is an IM client just as good (OR BETTER) than WhatsApp; it has excellent things like secret chats, a good UI, excellent servers, a very good amount of functions you can send all kinds of files. It is more secure than WhatsApp, has multi-account and multi-platform support and other things that should be done not only an alternative to WhatsApp, if not the replacement DEFINITIVE to that restrictive and insecure poor IM customer.

Not long ago they launched Telegram Desktop, a multiplatform application that can be used on our computer and that although it still lacks a bit, it is quite good:

Telegram Desktop

Translating this into Ello:

This is the Telegram of social networks, not only for its privacy and the absence of Advertising, or its functions, if not for its user base; unfortunately the fact that it is in closed beta and the fact that it may not have a good reception by users even already in open beta, do not paint a good future for it. Perhaps another shocking theme is its design, a little archaic or too retro.

Hello

That can clearly be fixed in both with a little promotion by the users themselves and by the community behind and in front of Ello, and with good criticism from the specialized media, which inevitably have an influence on the behavior and opinion of the users.

Both Telegram and Ello are excellent and have the potential to not only provide safer, more comfortable, fresh and private alternatives than Facebook / Google +, WhatsApp / FB Messenger / Hangouts, but also have the necessary potential (and to spare) to become the definitive replacement for them and cut with the conventional and pre-established by the large multinational corporations that have become monopolies.

If you like an invitation to Ello, send me an email to arambuladuransergio [at] gmail [dot] com, and you can read me here at Original post.


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  1.   eliotime3000 said

    At the moment I am happy with Diaspora * and the truth is that I have already got used to the rhythm in which this social network is already running.

    With the social network that I have problems is with Telegram, because I only have a few to be able to communicate in this way (all continue with WhatsApp).

    1.    elav said

      I'm giving D * another chance .. let's see how long it lasts for me 😀

      1.    Sergio Duran said

        I was one of the first to use a diaspora but he doesn't call me, his flow is strange; I also love it, especially its UI that although it seems archaic, it is not and is quite modern 🙂

    2.    hey said

      Was diaspora not developing dead?

  2.   houndix said

    Why so many closed silos? We already have definitive replacements for both asocial networks and instant messaging. They are called Pump.io and Jabber / XMPP, respectively.

    In fact, most chats and instant messaging services such as Telegram, Facebook chat, etc, are based on Jabber / XMPP but modified so that it cannot connect with other services that have the same base. These problems are fixed by going to any decentralized Jabber server, or even setting up your own if you have the means and knowledge to do so.

    And Pump.io is a social network protocol that has all the basics of any social network and, like Jabber, allows decentralized communication between different servers. It is still in alpha phase but it is perfectly usable and is progressing at a very good pace. Unlike Diaspora *, Pump.io does have an API that allows the development of all kinds of external and native applications and services, and thus does not depend so much on the browser.

    Both Jabber and Pump.io are totally free both on the server and client sides (something that cannot be said either of Telegram that is so widely defended in the free world), and decentralized so that anyone can connect from any server with users from any other server. It is what has always happened with other technologies such as the telephone of a lifetime, and if it were given the importance it deserves, all this problem would end.

    If the problem is that "we are four cats who use these things" over time we will be more and more users. No network was born with millions of users, and this trend of disconnected silos complicates everything a lot.

    If anyone is interested in the subject, I leave a link to a very interesting blog where you can find information about these free and decentralized networks of which I speak:
    https://comunicatelibremente.wordpress.com/

    a greeting

  3.   diazepam said

    1) This does not convince me because of its financial issues, but I love telegram.

    2) invasion of jabber, D *, GNUSocial and pump.io users in 3… 2… 1…

    1.    Ñandekuera said

      Jabber! Xmpp! # @ Hahaha
      I have not tried telegram, the fact that it has proprietary servers and they are those of VK no longer calls me. But I don't know, is it OTR compliant?

    2.    dbillyx said

      I came… they called me… I heard Diaspora say…. xD

      I have an account in Ello, but I'm only adding those who have a female avatar or at least something like a woman is noticed, because to date I have read that Ello has been a network that homosexuals chose to use after they came out with the problem of original names and special names they used on facebook.

      So I am careful in It.

    1.    Tedel said

      This is not certain. Their terms say that they can share your information with their investors (whoever they are).

      About Telegram, I have not tried it, but for now I would not have anyone to talk to.

  4.   dario said

    I can give an invitation, whoever asks me first, I've already run out of the other ones xD

  5.   Miguel said

    I use telegram and the truth is I like it is quite safe and easy to use the same I do not have many contacts since almost everyone uses WhatsApp

    1.    Sergio Duran said

      Same here 🙂

  6.   zicoxy3 said

    Taking the general public to something new costs. I have my proof with Telegram.
    From one day to the next, all the contacts began to appear on Telegram, which surprised me. The solution was very easy to figure out. WhatsApp time was running out and users had to pay, and although the price is ridiculous, many opted to change and not pay.
    But WhatsApp reacted and gave away another year, and my contacts went back to WhatsApp. Only a few of my contacts and convinced continue to use it ...

    That's what happens with Ello, with Diaspora, with G +… you already have a story on Facebook, there are your friends, your photos… you start from scratch in the rest. A new social network is taking too much risk. As long as facebook does not change much, the general public will not consider changing.

    1.    Sergio Duran said

      I agree with you friend

  7.   Wanda said

    Well, I don't think Telegram is a really safe alternative to Vatsapp. There are too many cybersecurity scandals associated with this app. Hello causes more of my confidence, as well as other applications such as Signal, Utopia P2P or Wicr.