<story><title>Build an SMS Forwarder with Raspberry Pi Zero W and Waveshare SIM7000E Hat</title><url>https://mete.dev/2021/02/21/build-an-sms-forwarder-with-raspberry-pi-zero-w-and-waveshare-sim7000e-hat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielschonfeld</author><text>Can someone please explain to me the appeal of telegram (as opposed to signal)? Maybe I don’t understand something or am too old but how is it a safe haven compared to WhatsApp in the wake of the WhatsApp debecle. I just fail to understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lofi_lory</author><text>Telegram is not at all secure compared to Signal (in theory). However it has an awesome UI and lots of nice features (most of which are lost using secret chats).&lt;p&gt;For the longest time these were exclusive features to telegram compared to Signal:&lt;p&gt;* Delete messages at other party (&amp;quot;undo&amp;quot;), critical for deleting accidentally sent nudes.
* Username only communication
* Stickers (silly, but well kinda fun)
* Bots (very easy to make your computer talk to your phone or a group this way)
* link preview
* Self messages as easy link&amp;#x2F;file sharing between devices. Super useful.&lt;p&gt;Signal is slowly catching up, but it&amp;#x27;s so buggy at times, I am starting to really hate it&amp;#x2F;distrust it (I also  dislike MM&amp;#x27;s personality&amp;#x2F;opinions). Matrix seems to move at a better pace, with more useful features already (e.g  edit, markdown, some fun things). I am happy to get rid of telegram for Matrix. One feature better then the other already: resync of lost messages from the distributed network and no reliance on telephone numbers as UID.</text></comment>
<story><title>Build an SMS Forwarder with Raspberry Pi Zero W and Waveshare SIM7000E Hat</title><url>https://mete.dev/2021/02/21/build-an-sms-forwarder-with-raspberry-pi-zero-w-and-waveshare-sim7000e-hat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielschonfeld</author><text>Can someone please explain to me the appeal of telegram (as opposed to signal)? Maybe I don’t understand something or am too old but how is it a safe haven compared to WhatsApp in the wake of the WhatsApp debecle. I just fail to understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keyme</author><text>It feels to me that Telegram is the closest thing to old school IRC that we &amp;quot;have&amp;quot;* right now. You can have public&amp;#x2F;private channels, you don&amp;#x27;t see other peoples phone numbers for no reason (you see their chosen nicks), you have bots, broadcasts and more.&lt;p&gt;* That has any reach beyond the people who would scoff at this sentence.</text></comment>