I think nheko is a clone of the telegram UI rather a fork of it. I agree it'd be awesome if someone took the actual Telegram FOSS clients and ripped out the TG

I think nheko is a clone of the telegram UI rather a fork of it. I agree it'd be awesome if someone took the actual Telegram FOSS clients and ripped out the TG backend and replaced it with Matrix (a bit like the Delta.chat folks did, but replacing with email)