Discord is banned in Turkiye. The reason is some data theft, blackmail, AI montage photos, etc. As usual, our government made the easiest and most illogical move :)
I am looking for an alternative platform to talk and chat with my friends. Which platforms do you recommend?
The ones I tried:
- Revolt: Voice chat is not stable. They do not accept new registrations.
- Matrix: Unstable overall.
- TeamSpeak: ancient interface. We can still try it.
- XMPP: It has an old interface like TS. Not sure if it has voice channels.
- Your recommendations?
There’s no technical reason why they couldn’t sync messages, but there is an attack if they do. Basically, someone could set up a new device with your account and grab all of your past messages. Since Signal doesn’t sync messages, they’ll only get messages going forward.
It should certainly be an option to sync, but I don’t think it should be on by default (or at least it should ask on setup).
So just like I said, illusory security gains.
The security gains may be illusory, but the privacy benefits are significant.
Not being able to see my old messages on desktop is a privacy benefit? I don’t think you are correct.
Yes it is. If you can set up the app on a new device and access all your old messages, then that means anyone who can get your account creds can do the same. That could be a hacker, an ex, or law enforcement.