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To be fair, Telegram's protocol is open and there are many open-source clients with their established userbases. There's even a separate team at Telegram develo
by ComodoHacker 6y ago
To be fair, Telegram's protocol is open and there are many open-source clients with their established userbases. There's even a separate team at Telegram developing an official alternative client (Telegram X) to foster competition. Also, there's Matrix-Telegram bridge in development.
So the article's point is only partially applicable to Telegram.
>Why does everybody wanting to exchange messages need the same client?
Why not go a step further and ask why everybody need the same protocol?
- ezst 6y agoWould that bridge not require you to hold a telegram account? If not, then that's some true federation there, and they have my respect and praise (as an XMPPer).
- ComodoHacker 6y agoYou can't post anything to Telegram without an account. No bridge can change that.
- ezst 6y agoThen Telegram is no better than other silos, and just slightly better than the worst of them in the sense that it lets you use a (puppet) third party client.