Einar to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agoTelegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChattechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up13cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up13external-linkTelegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChattechcrunch.comEinar to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square31fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
minus-square@whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish0•9 months agoTelegram 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.
minus-square@smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoTelegram has the best clients ever. But those clients need to connect to something and this is where we encounter a big problem.
minus-squareVirkkunenlinkfedilink0•9 months agoBut isn’t that the whole point of a messaging service? Connect to something else that’s not local and have your messages exchanged?
minus-square@Muehe@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish0•9 months agoI think smileyhead is alluding to the fact that Telegram servers are not open source, just the clients are.
minus-squareඞmirlinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoWhy would it matter if the servers are open source? How would you ever verify they are running the exact build they claim they are?
minus-squareClotlinkfedilinkEnglish1•7 months agoyeah it is too good for just to be called a messaging app, hope it will be more privacy focused
minus-square@Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•9 months ago Owned by the Russians Partnered with the CCP Tencent
minus-square@totallynotfbi@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish0•9 months agoHasn’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
minus-square@Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoRussia 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.
minus-square@Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-29 months agoIt 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.
Telegram is a suprisingly good app.
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.
But isn’t that the whole point of a messaging service? Connect to something else that’s not local and have your messages exchanged?
I think smileyhead is alluding to the fact that Telegram servers are not open source, just the clients are.
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?
By running it myself, duh.
yeah it is too good for just to be called a messaging app, hope it will be more privacy focused
Owned by the Russians
Partnered with the
CCPTencentHasn’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.
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.