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Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by original_reader@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Telegram 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.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Telegram has the best clients ever. But those clients need to connect to something and this is where we encounter a big problem.

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

  • Owned by the Russians

  • Partnered with the ~~CCP~~ Tencent

[–] totallynotfbi@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 1 points 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.

[–] EqMinMax@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • More importantly, non-electron app.
[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 desktop application. Electron is just a tool.