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

whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• EqMinMax@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • More importantly, non-electron app.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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 application. Electron is just a tool.

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  • suckmyspez@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fucking hell 🤦‍♂️

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• Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • Owned by the Russians

  • Partnered with the CCP Tencent

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  • totallynotfbi@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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    • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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    • fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, but they were compromised by Russia in June 2020.

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  • Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    a yes, the ceo that isn’t on russia and is viewd as a criminal for being against the war?

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    • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If that’s the definition of trustworthy Prigozhin was a saint

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      • 601error@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Prigo was definitely not against the war.

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  • mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    "the russians" is the new "the jews" but for liberals, right?

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    • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah more “the Nazis” vibes to it really.

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      • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Russians didn’t invade Iraq, Americans did.

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  • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Better than being owned by Americans.

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    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why does it need to be owned by anyone?

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Someone needs to use those protocols and pour them in an app.

        Those things don’t grow on trees.

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• smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • Virkkunen@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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• axo@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I prefer Telegram to something owned by an American corporation.

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• clot27@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• suckmyspez@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lol what are you smoking?!

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• jack@monero.town ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Being foss and available on Linux is the prerequisite, it doesn’t make the app “good”

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  • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yet WhatsApp is neither.

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