I feel like someone tooling with a secure messaging app makes it less…reliable that its secure, despite yanking google play parts out of the code. Thoughts?

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    Client is open source, but the server is not. So I would say Telegram as a service is not FOSS.

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      I don’t know why people spend time building open source clients for not-self-hostable services. You could potentially spend hundreds of hours on something that can be shut down on a whim. Discord and spotify bots and clients, twitter or facebook clients, their APIs have been either severely restricted or shut down in the past.

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        I love discord and the community that defends the shitshow going on at their hq day after day, averting their eyes and continuing to work relentlessly on an additional income stream for a company that does not care about them.

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        Nitter is pretty good tho. Makes Twitter usable without logging in. But yeah a FOSS client for Telegram feels like a waste of keystrokes.

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        Because of users. Having some_other_superior_service is useless if the user you care about doesn’t use it. If someone or something you care about uses telegram, you’ll need a telegram client to talk to them. Or signal, WA, whatever. Some people are willing to be users for that. Some are willing to be devs.