Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook

Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by bakuninsbart on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:03AM (#30270551)

Both Threema and Signal are the way to go with chat apps, the only advantage Telegram offers are vast groups for specific purposes. Here in Berlin, I'm getting cheap produce through telegram, get alerted to public transport controls (I do have a ticket, but sometimes friends do not), and sell/buy stuff I don't need.

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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by baxuz on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:10AM (#30270596)

Other advantages:

-not being tied to a phone number

-having a desktop app which doesn't suck (sync issues, connection issues, lacking features, is basically a simple proxy for your phone, etc)

-allows me to use 3rd party apps

-having chat history synced across my apps and devices and backed up. History is immensely important

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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by gefhfffh on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:58AM (#30270902)

Checkout Element, it covers all that as well. However, the Desktop App is Electron, so I don't know if you are OK with that

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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by lpcvoid on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @05:44AM (#30271183)

This is the main problem with Matrix for me. If they would just develop a good desktop client, I would be all over it.

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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by bilal4hmed on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @07:37AM (#30271904)

Have you tried some of the alternatives like fluffychat ? I feel their UI is far ahead of the official clients

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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by lpcvoid on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @01:01PM (#30275817)

Actually, no. Thanks for the hint, I'll be testing that soon :)

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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by gefhfffh on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:57AM (#30270893)

TBH I would consider Matrix the way to go regarding chat. It allows app and vendor independent communication and combines e2ee with Synchronisation across arbitrary many devices (something that many people like from Telegram).

These days, Threema and Signal don't support the Matrix Protocol.

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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by theshrike79 on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:04AM (#30270558)

Telegram's advantages are a simple bot API and proper moderation tools for large channels.

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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by krzyk on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:27AM (#30270718)

And an app that is small and fast (and a proper desktop app, not some electron).

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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by tentacleuno on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:54AM (#30270871)

I'm consistently surprised when I remind myself that Telegram is a Qt app. It's so out of the norm today, when so many things [I use] are bloated Electron apps.

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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by lpcvoid on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @05:45AM (#30271192)

It's also Qt Widgets based, which is even more interesting IMO. Just really, really good engineering that happened here.

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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by Tenoke on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:52AM (#30270861)

Funnily enough given the title, those same things have even bigger groups on Facebook than telegram in Berlin even accounting for how popular it is here.

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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by PicassoCTs on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @07:33AM (#30271875)

"Die Fahrscheine bitte! Schwarzfahren ist eine Straftat"

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