Telegram has announced a partnership with Tencent

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/telegram-wechat-super-app-ton-foundation/

by doteqiv • 3 years ago

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ushakov• 3 years ago

Developers can use JavaScript to create infinitely flexible interfaces that can be launched right inside Telegram — and can completely replace any website.

What role does TON or blockchain play here?

junon• 3 years ago

Not sure why people use TG for secrecy anymore, as it's been proven to have none of the benefits sought after by privacy forward folks.

This is just another nail in the coffin.

znpy2• 3 years ago

I use with all my friends instead of whatsapp.

It’s just incredibly better as an app, under all points of view. I can also easily create bots for my own purposes, very simply.

Privacy is generally okay, my threat model is not state actor, so I’m fine.

Whatsapp claims to be end to end encrypted, but I don’t trust anything from meta.

bigger_inside• 3 years ago

I don't trust the encryption, but I especially don't trust the WhatsApp backups - and if I disable cloud backups for my messages, it asks me every few weeks if I don't want to turn it on, and I have to choose "never" every single time. And if the people I talk to back up, it's in their cloud anyway.

tail_exchange4• 3 years ago

I'd bet most people in the West don't. They use it because it's a very good messenger.

lilsoso• 3 years ago

Can you share what you're referring to when you say it's proven to not have privacy?

wkat42422• 3 years ago

Its secret chats do what they promise. Not as handy as Whatsapp (only work on one device and both partners need to be online for the key exchange) but it does the job.

Telegram focuses more on big public groups anyway where this doesn't matter so much because anyone can join. This is really what I use it for too.

TheHumanist• 3 years ago

Actually just deleted it from my phone this morning. It's beyond garbage. I cringe every time I need to open it. But I realized I never really need to open it. So it's gone. Awful app.

WilTimSon2• 3 years ago

Why such a misleading title? It’s the TON foundation partnering, which isn’t related to Telegram. TON used to be a Telegram product but they dumped it, likely due to SEC not letting them launch it in the US.

artninja1988• 3 years ago

Well, it did make you and me klick...

jacooper4• 3 years ago

The shadiest chat app out there, costs so much to host without a clear income and doesn't have full encryption (nobody uses secret rooms).

petre• 3 years ago

Slack and Discord are better in this regard how?

Iulioh2• 3 years ago

Slack DOES have a good income source (buisness use)

Discord and telegram have premium but discord is way more used and have streaming features (really costly) and telegram premium is not that widespread and no one but power users need it

jacooper4• 3 years ago

Discord is just burning VC money.

Telegram doesnt even have that.

Its based in UAE, with a mere legal presence in Germany, their official explanation is that durov is financing it sincd its beginning in 2014, how? From his VK money.

This could've been believable, if telegram worked like WhatsApp with Minimum storage requirements, but its totally the opposite with huge hosting xosts and no clear funing source.

wkat42422• 3 years ago

I pay for TG premium and it offers a lot for the little it costs. The value is there IMO. The uptake isn't yet but I guess they're banking on that coming in the future like most startups.

tail_exchange4• 3 years ago

Misleading article. Telegram didn't partner with Tencent, TON did, and they are not related.

duskwuff3• 3 years ago

they are not related

Are we sure about that? The corporate structure of Telegram is fairly opaque.

tail_exchange4• 3 years ago

It's fine to have your suspicious, but if a media outlet is going to affirm this, I'd expect evidence that is a bit more concrete and falsifiable.

gfalcao• 3 years ago

// In [25]: chr(16) // Out[25]: '\x10'

SushiHippie• 3 years ago

What does this comment mean? You demonstrated the python function 'chr', but what does this have to do with the post?

Telegram has announced a partnership with Tencent

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