The worst part is, they're partnering with Tencent.
Telegram is dead.
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@photonic_sorcerer What do you suggest as an alternative?
Signal for private conversations and for larger groups Matrix. Matrix can also be bridged to telegram effortlessly.
Telegram is a suprisingly good app.
- Open source clients
- Decent Linux client on the laptop (whatsapp desktop is just terrible)
- It can be downloaded without Google's appstore.
I wish other apps were half as good as Telegram.
Telegram has the best clients ever. But those clients need to connect to something and this is where we encounter a big problem.
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Owned by the Russians
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Partnered with the ~~CCP~~ Tencent
Hasn't the founder been a vocal critic of Russia for years, including the Ukraine war? I don't really see why that would be a concern, especially since Telegram is supposedly owned by a US LLC
Russia has an army of "vocal critics" who play an important role in the pantomime, you see them on RT regularly. It doesn't prove anything.
- More importantly, non-electron app.
It bothers me that the major complaint is not the privacy issues or the people who own it behind the scenes...
but the technology used to build the desktop application. Electron is just a tool.
Well, thats also easy since telegram clients dont do much more than displaying messages stored on a server. Its more a viewer than a full client.
And that compromises hard on privacy and security, which Signal and Whatsapp dont do, they have proper Clients that have to really handle and store incoming messages. And the E2EE makes it harder, developing an independent desktop client, like Signal always had and Whatsapp recently got. But both are mediocre at best, sure.