Comment on Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat

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• fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also en.wikipedia.org/…/Blocking_of_Telegram_in_Russia

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  • jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Am also gonna stick with signal, eyeing up matrix. But what issues? The only reason i haven’t tested it out yet is none of my friends seem too keen on trying it.

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    • fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For a lack of a better term: jank. Too much jank. For one instance, I have never seen in Whatsapp or Signal the phrase “unable to decrypt message”. I can deal with that personally, but >90% of the people I need to communicate to with messengers will drop a service and never look back if they see that.

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    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I use it with many friends and it is super buggy. Calls work only ok on browser version of Element, bugs in encryption are common where you cannot read a message, Synapse server is bloating the database and not clean after itself, etc.

      It’s getting better month by month, but still can’t recommend for your friends that are not technical people into open source. Better wait to not discourage them now.

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• totallynotfbi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This week, TON Foundation announced that it’s forged a partnership with Tencent Cloud, which has “already successfully supported TON validators and plans to expand its services further to help meet TON’s high compute intensity and network bandwidth needs.” Validators, in web3 lingo, are participants that help authenticate transactions in a blockchain network.

  It looks like the partnership with Tencent only extends to their Web3 blockchain thing, and there doesn’t seem to be any partnership in the main app so it’s not the end of the world - at least, for now.

  Also, what even is this TON blockchain? I never knew Telegram had anything to do with crypto :/

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  • fruitleatherpostcard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, nah. Anything the CCP can slip it’s slimy festering little dick into, it will.

    There’s no way in hell that Telegram is secure.

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    • totallynotfbi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess, but I don’t see how much they can really influence Telegram without any stake in the app itself. They only seem to have a deal for cloud-hosting with the TON Foundation, a non-critical part of the app, and even that appears to be non-exclusive. So if Tencent tries to force a bad decision onto Telegram, what’s stopping them from severing ties and moving everything over to another provider?

      Of course, we don’t know what the situation will be like in the future, but at this present moment, I don’t think Telegram’s security has been breached by this. (Also I think you triple-posted this comment)

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      • fruitleatherpostcard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Apologies for triple post. Lemmy seems a bit unresponsive so sometimes I hit ‘post’ a couple of times without realising that it actually registered.

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• chi_chan@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Telegram is partnering with tencent??

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  • briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They are renting server space off a big company, not much different than AWS or Azure.

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    • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Except that it is

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      • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You are just used to aws. They are a shit company too.

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• zephyreks@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The entire point of E2EE is that it doesn’t matter who the host is.

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