How do notifications work in the official Telegram Android app (Play Store vs Site version maybe)? Does it have the same mechanism as Signal, which only recognizes the presence of notifications via Google services, but sends them via its web socket service?

    • rdri@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      What basic feature?

      Contacts sync.

      Telegram has told people to make third-party clients

      What? No. It just didn’t tell them they have to use their own servers to use their forks.

      the fact people found it easier to find and download a third party client really speaks to how little they cared about that particular area.

      No, it speaks to how no big developer can do anything to prevent their apps from being banned by oppressive governments. Hence why opposition resorted to 3rd party forks.

      And Telegram now has an increasing history of supporting state governments over the people.

      Telegram has experience of trying to protect people when they oppose governments. Signal is not interested in getting any similar experience. It will remain useless to opposition it seems.

      Telegram stores far more data than Signal, including the memberships of groups

      Signal would have to store the same data to allow users participate in public groups.

      and the contents of every message in every group.

      I don’t think Telegram ever disclosed anything like that. Public groups are open for everyone including governments. Any service that is not serverless will store the same amount of metadata, otherwise it won’t work.