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?

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    3 years ago

    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.

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      2 years ago

      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.

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      3 years ago

      Nitter is pretty good tho. Makes Twitter usable without logging in. But yeah a FOSS client for Telegram feels like a waste of keystrokes.