I want to share a picture or GIF with my friend on Telegram, but I don’t want to do it directly. What can I use?

  • ULS@lemmy.ml
    121·
    10 months ago

    Not on the Internet. Convert the gif to dvd. Then burn the dvd. Then give to your friend and burn the dvd again.

  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    156·
    10 months ago

    Use Signal and if you both are happy with it, dump that garbage app 😂

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    93·
    10 months ago

    Define “safely”. That means different things to different people.

    Telegram has their secure chat, which is fully E2E.

    • UraniumBlazer@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      It does, but it’s in a very malicious fashion. You need to activate something called “Secret Chat” for a given chat conversation. Only then is it E2EE. Otherwise, it’s unencrypted like discord n stuff.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
        31·
        10 months ago

        And you still haven’t answered the question.

        Define safely. We really can’t help until we known what you’re trying to do

        • someoneFromInternet@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          I just want the telegram to not have access to the photo. Otherwise, I would use other methods to transmit it.

          • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
            21·
            10 months ago

            Theoretically, they don’t have access to the photos even though they’re running the server between. That’s what end to end encryption means, it’s encrypted on your end and decrypted on the recipients end.

            Unless the middle man in question retains both your and the recipients encryption keys, they can’t read the messages. This requires trusting the vendor in question.

            However the only alternative to trusting a vendor is not only purchasing your own equipment, but also deploying it on your property, and building and maintaining your own isolated physical connections between those locations. This is what nation states and militaries do, the US military has an entirely physically separate and independent “internet”.

            There’s a concept in information security not to spend more protecting information than that information is worth. Your gifs are probably not worth the effort of building your own infrastructure, unless you’re sending some highly sketchy content.

    • SpiceDealer@lemmy.world
      31·
      10 months ago

      I’m going to come off as retarded but I have to ask: when did Signal get this bad rep? I remember not too long ago that it and Telegram were praised for their privacy practices. What happened for that to change?

    • EasyDoesIt@lemmy.ml
      2·
      10 months ago

      simplex is a relatively new chat app but it’s evolving pretty fast, i suggest it too, but it has several bug and missing feature that need to be fixed and added in order to make it like a standard chat application

      • the call will close if you go back to the chat (they should fix that in the next version)

      • it does not ring while you call

      • it can only be synced to a one desktop via the wifi

      • it has only local notification system (due to security reasons)

      • the calls are pretty susceptible to the line stability

      but seems the only real secure chat app out there, you can check out the roadmap in the description of GitHub

      https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
    12·
    10 months ago

    You could share a link to the image if you hosted a drive or photo sharing service yourself. Otherwise, I guess there’s Signal or telegram secret chats.