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Telegram is rarely used in my country anyway.
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.
Telegram has the best clients ever. But those clients need to connect to something and this is where we encounter a big problem.
- More importantly, non-electron app.
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.
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Owned by the Russians
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Partnered with the ~~CCP~~ Tencent
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