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Telegram, the popular messaging app with 800 million monthly active users worldwide, is inching closer to adopting an ecosystem strategy that is
  • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Clot@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      yeah it is too good for just to be called a messaging app, hope it will be more privacy focused

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Telegram has the best clients ever. But those clients need to connect to something and this is where we encounter a big problem.

      • Virkkunen@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        But isn’t that the whole point of a messaging service? Connect to something else that’s not local and have your messages exchanged?

        • Muehe@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I think smileyhead is alluding to the fact that Telegram servers are not open source, just the clients are.

          • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Why would it matter if the servers are open source? How would you ever verify they are running the exact build they claim they are?