Einar@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoTelegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChattechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTelegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChattechcrunch.comEinar@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squarewhitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 years agoTelegram 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.
minus-squaresmileyhead@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoTelegram has the best clients ever. But those clients need to connect to something and this is where we encounter a big problem.
minus-squareEdgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years ago Owned by the Russians Partnered with the CCP Tencent
minus-squaretotallynotfbi@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoHasn’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
minus-squareEdgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoRussia 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.
minus-squarenotsharp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years ago More importantly, non-electron app.
minus-squarePotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 years agoIt 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.
Telegram is a suprisingly good app.
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.
Owned by the Russians
Partnered with the
CCPTencentHasn’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
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.
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.