I feel like someone tooling with a secure messaging app makes it less…reliable that its secure, despite yanking google play parts out of the code. Thoughts?
Telegram FOSS is definitely better than official client if you really have to use this service but you should look for some alternatives like Session.
Yeah, it is legit. You can also use Neko X, which is inspired by Telegram X and forked from Telegram X.
Telegram FOSS removes a lot of the proprietary code from the official telegram client and also it prefers OSM instead of Gmaps. I’ve been using Telegram FOSS for some months and I haven’t faced any issues. As for security, I am not really sure.
If you are using telegram for any sensitive conversations, I wouldn’t recommend using it. Use Signal, Matrix or some other good and open source messaging app.
I don’t know why Telegram is always the go-to topic for ‘secure messaging’, especially as a contender vs discord. When we have the option of matrix.org, which is not only encrypted, but federated.
Because Telegram offers top notch user experience, apart from excellent apps they even offer native desktop clients. I really want matrix to succeed but as of now the user experience is clearly inferior.
Try cinny. I find it less cluttered compared to element
Element is very very good.
how is it inferior? what’s wrong with the user experience of Element? it’s available on all major platforms with a native client + all modern browsers. has a nice ui. and loads of functions surpassing Telegram out of the gate.
Client is open source, but the server is not. So I would say Telegram as a service is not FOSS.
I don’t know why people spend time building open source clients for not-self-hostable services. You could potentially spend hundreds of hours on something that can be shut down on a whim. Discord and spotify bots and clients, twitter or facebook clients, their APIs have been either severely restricted or shut down in the past.
Nitter is pretty good tho. Makes Twitter usable without logging in. But yeah a FOSS client for Telegram feels like a waste of keystrokes.
Because of users. Having some_other_superior_service is useless if the user you care about doesn’t use it. If someone or something you care about uses telegram, you’ll need a telegram client to talk to them. Or signal, WA, whatever. Some people are willing to be users for that. Some are willing to be devs.
