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[–] turkishdelight@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (5 children)

It's more the attitude that bothers me. Signal's refusal to support alternative appstores and clients is very disturbing. It gives the impression that Signal is a honeypot.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The official version of Telegram isn't available on F-Droid either, and it doesn't use end-to-end encryption by default, so it's much more likely that it is a honeypot

[–] DivisionResult@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That is not the official Telegram app. It is a fork called "Telegram-FOSS". If you go to the F-Droid page and click on 'Source code', you will see that it links to this repo: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS

This is the description of that GitHub repository:

Unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram client for Android

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