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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by cookiengineer on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:03AM (#25670501)
For people that are not aware: There's a Telegram FOSS [1] fork which contains all kinds of fixes; and additionally is Google Services and tracking free, which means it will run on AOSP and LineageOS without any burden of push services.

You can verify this yourself with AppWarden [2].

[1] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS

[2] https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden

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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by pelasaco on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:42AM (#25670871)
being FOSS just in the client side, IMO changes little in comparsion with WhatsApp.
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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by cookiengineer on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:55AM (#25671010)
> being FOSS just in the client side, IMO changes little in comparsion with WhatsApp.

There are efforts implementing mtproto servers that are compatible with the Telegram codebase like telegramd [1] or madelineproto [2] in case you want to host your own server.

But, if decentralization is your main focus (interpreting your statement); you probably want to switch to a Matrix-based client anyways.

[1] https://github.com/nebula-chat/telegramd

[2] https://github.com/danog/MadelineProto

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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by pelasaco on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:01AM (#25671092)
I would love to have my own telegram infrastructure. I will check those projects, thank you!
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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by troyvit on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:42PM (#25676200)
I like Telegram FOSS because it doesn't rely on google's infrastructure to run. That's good enough for me given I already made the questionable decision to run a chat client with a home-baked security protocol ;)
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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by fsflover on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:45AM (#25670907)
At least you know what your device is doing. But walled garden is definitely bad.
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