Good news for the open source community?
I don’t think so. The server side is not open source only the client side is.
End to end encryption is also not enabled by default for messages.
It’s not marginally better. It’s objectively much better.
Having an open source client has huuuuge advantages. Here is one: I can download Telegram client from F-Droid, which reduces my dependency on Google Play Store.
Telegram is used by somewhere between half to a full billion people. It’s impact on open source is massive.
Good news for the open source community? I don’t think so. The server side is not open source only the client side is. End to end encryption is also not enabled by default for messages.
Telegram has Open Source clients, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger don’t. That’s progress.
Marginally “better”, but not progress; like the US military going carbon neutral.
The ecosystem is still a walled garden subject to government pressures upon and whims of a single corporate entity.
It’s not marginally better. It’s objectively much better.
Having an open source client has huuuuge advantages. Here is one: I can download Telegram client from F-Droid, which reduces my dependency on Google Play Store.
Telegram is used by somewhere between half to a full billion people. It’s impact on open source is massive.
Also their implementation of E2EE is weird.
Isn’t group chat also not secure?