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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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[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The worst part is, they're partnering with Tencent.

Telegram is dead.

[–] totallynotfbi@lemm.ee 1 points 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 :/

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

[–] 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.