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.

  • AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml
    16·
    9 months ago

    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

    • bay400@thelemmy.club
      7·
      9 months ago

      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

      • AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml
        4·
        9 months ago

        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

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      9 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.