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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

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!