Gregory's Server
I'm all for Signal and E2EE and distributed systems and all that, but... Telegram is, by far, the least-bullshit most-fun messenger I've ever used. Everything just seems to work, it's lean, has native open source client apps, a big pile of features that are cohesively integrated and work, API/bot support, useful stuff like automatic translation (premium feature, but that's understandable since translation APIs aren't free), etc.
Other platforms would do well to learn from it.
@marcan
did you know that like half of telegram's features are actually just messages disguised to not look like messages?
like, comments? or threads?
tdlib actually falls apart if you participate in too much chats, and i participate in too much chats
telegram x, the supposedly lighter client based on tdlib (see above!) still does not have tabs
one of my friends actually did work in the telegram x team and they are a clusterfuck of horrible people doing horrible decisions, and not just about the app. he left the team and is still depressed after whatever the fuck they did to him
@marcan
did you know that like half of telegram's features are actually just messages disguised to not look like messages?
like, comments? or threads?
tdlib actually falls apart if you participate in too much chats, and i participate in too much chats