That is to say, both options are bad. Of course it is conceptually better to spread your information over many separate information silos so that your data is harder to correlate. That should not be the bar we aspire to though.
Of course, that requirement is exactly how they implement the user lock-in, so it's not going anywhere until legislation forces them to open up.
Services now just want some person info they can link to you and that actually scares me a little.
As both the client _and the server_ is open source though it's entirely possible to do things like Signal<->Matrix bridges.
If so, do you have other notable examples or is it insider information? ;-)
I know you’re not engaging in good faith but I’m adding this more for the benefit of onlookers
That was uncalled for. Please adjust your troll-detector and I'll adjust my wittyness dispenser ;-)
I am serious even when I'm joking, but I have never heard anyone saying that in full seriousness and also it feels like we should have known something: even the Russian secret service isn't perfect, in fact they've done some really big mistakes the last few years (in addition to their deliberate "mistakes" that they seemingly do to show off.)
Do you have a source for that. Telegram is built by the VKontakt guys who Putin famously fucked over.