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

• totallynotfbi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • 601error@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Prigo was definitely not against the war.

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• mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah more “the Nazis” vibes to it really.

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    • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Russians didn’t invade Iraq, Americans did.

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      • 601error@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Whataboutism detected.

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      • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        America has invaded a lot of places and I’d not recommend people use services from there either if you value privacy.

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      • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So they’re both awful imperialist powers? How novel

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• whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Better than being owned by Americans.

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  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why does it need to be owned by anyone?

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

      Those things don’t grow on trees.

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