Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since

Re:Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody ... by Jiocus on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:02AM (#26978528)

Telegram is one of the few messengers that actually enables you to use any Telegram client available, or write your own[1].

The protocol that is de facto Telegram is called MProto[2], and is publicly available.

[1]: https://telegram.org/apps

[2]: https://core.telegram.org/mtproto

edit: The main difference between email and Telegram, is that anyone can host email servers, while Telegram manages theirs.

edit2: MProto being widely available to study, one could perhaps reverse-engineer their own server - but that hasn't been a desire to accomplish this from what I can see. Much of the value-proposal of Telegram is their Service as a whole.

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Re:Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody ... by krageon on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:17AM (#26978614)

Telegram is centralised and siloed, where email isn't. You just can't compare the two.

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Re:Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody ... by Jiocus on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:50AM (#26979162)

> You just can't compare the two.

You just did.

I was responding to the claim that Telegram wasn't providing a protocol or ability for developers to author their own clients.

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Re:Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody ... by leephillips on Thursday April 29, 2021 @09:33AM (#26980936)

And point taken—I didn’t know about this, so Telegram was not an ideal example. But, as you point out, it still is not quite a decentralized as email, and, as a protocol, does not have email’s universal character. But thanks for the interesting information.

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