• Virkkunen
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      41 year ago

      But isn’t that the whole point of a messaging service? Connect to something else that’s not local and have your messages exchanged?

      • @Muehe@lemmy.ml
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        161 year ago

        I think smileyhead is alluding to the fact that Telegram servers are not open source, just the clients are.

          • @Muehe@lemmy.ml
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            11 year ago

            That’s kind of an apples an oranges comparison, WhatsApp doesn’t even try to present a facade of being open source. Telegram does, betting that the distinction between server and client code will go over most peoples heads, which it probably does to be honest.

        • ඞmir
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          51 year ago

          Why would it matter if the servers are open source? How would you ever verify they are running the exact build they claim they are?

          • @Muehe@lemmy.ml
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            51 year ago

            It’s not about what build they are running. It matters because somebody just glancing at it might misinterpret the situation as “Telegram is open source”, but it actually isn’t because the server isn’t. Just some clients are, which is pretty useless if you can’t run a server to talk to them. Just for arguments sake, let’s say Telegram gets busted tomorrow in an international sting operation and all their servers get taken offline. The clients will be entirely useless at that point, somebody would have to reverse engineer the server.

          • TheEntity
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            21 year ago

            I’d like to at the very least be able to run my own server. Not even necessarily federated with the original ones. Just run my own instance if I don’t trust the main one runs what they claim.