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I agree about email. And the main thing, and what distinguishes it from Telegram, etc., is that it is a protocol, not an app. You can use any client you want, o
by leephillips 6y ago
I agree about email. And the main thing, and what distinguishes it from Telegram, etc., is that it is a protocol, not an app. You can use any client you want, or write your own.
- Jiocus 6y agoTelegram is one of the few messengers that actually enables you to use any Telegram client available, or write your own[1]. The protocol that is de facto Telegram is called MProto[2], and is publicly available. § [1]: https://telegram.org/apps https://telegram.org/apps [2]: https://core.telegram.org/mtproto https://core.telegram.org/mtproto § edit: The main difference between email and Telegram, is that anyone can host email servers, while Telegram manages theirs. edit2: MProto being widely available to study, one could perhaps reverse-engineer their own server - but that hasn't been a desire to accomplish this from what I can see. Much of the value-proposal of Telegram is their Service as a whole.
- krageon 6y agoTelegram is centralised and siloed, where email isn't. You just can't compare the two.
- Jiocus 6y ago> You just can't compare the two. You just did. I was responding to the claim that Telegram wasn't providing a protocol or ability for developers to author their own clients.
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- leephillips 6y agoAnd point taken—I didn’t know about this, so Telegram was not an ideal example. But, as you point out, it still is not quite a decentralized as email, and, as a protocol, does not have email’s universal character. But thanks for the interesting information.