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Re:Telegram Bot Platform by jhasse on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @05:05PM (#9774466)
Telegram has an open specification, called MTProto. I guess XMPP wasn't good enough, so they DID develop something "better" (better for this specific use case).

Also federated services have their disadvantages, so I wouldn't necessarily say that's better.

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Re:Telegram Bot Platform by kh_hk on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @05:13PM (#9774530)
The only disadvantages I can see on a federated service are security and the cost of running it.

Compared to the benefit of not restricting one-self to a platform, I would say federated is better.

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Re:Telegram Bot Platform by jhasse on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @05:31PM (#9774634)
It's also technically more challenging.
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