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You may be offered a free premium Telegram subscription – but please don’t accept (archive.is)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Telegram is giving away FREE Premium subscriptions! All they need from you is to use your cell phone as a relay to text out their OTP codes! And the recipient of the OTP sees your phone number! What could POSSIBLY go wrong with this deal?

PLEASE don't use Telegram! I personally recommend Matrix as it's totally FOSS, you can self host, there are tons of front end clients to choose from. Or even use Signal. I have my own issues with Signal, the fact they don't allow third party clients, you can't self-host, they have a proprietary shim in their stack that only they know what it does, they were pushing crypto, etc, but at least Signal is better than this garbage.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I'm writing a new Matrix client that's focused specifically on being a Discord-like dead simple experience for professional people -- it's under GPLv3 and written in pure Dart

Probably will have the first actual release in one to two months -- please tell me what you would like in terms of features so I can shove it into my already massive backlog

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

A client that is basically a ripoff of Telegram would be ideal for me, for what it's worth

Main features I like are replies, reactions to messages (also double tap to react with a default emoji), and that view where you can open a chain of replies like it's its own conversation (I'm assuming this is what is meant by "threading"/"threads")

Lastly, maybe the uncompressed and compressed photo/video options if that's not already a thing

If it had the above I would probably like Discord style too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Most of that is already covered by an existing Matrix client called FluffyChat too, if you want something right now

And sure, I mean I never saw any usage in threading but I guess some people really do be liking their threads

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Fluffychat doesn't support threads at the moment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Would quick circle video messages be possible to implement on the matrix?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ummm.... Well it's strictly possible, might need some mighty hacking tho...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Being able to support threading would be nice, a lot of clients don't have that feature, spaces too would also be nice. Also the E2E encryption is a must since a lot of Matrix communication have it enabled by default.