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Search on Telegram is more powerful than in other messaging apps because it allows users to find public channels and bots. Unfortunately, this feature has been abused by people who violated our Terms of Service to sell illegal goods.

To further deter criminals from abusing Telegram Search, we have updated our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, ensuring they are consistent across the world. We’ve made it clear that the IP addresses and phone numbers of those who violate our rules can be disclosed to relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests.

  • 0x0@programming.dev
    121·
    2 months ago

    XMPP is still around although there’s a constant campaign trying to claim it’s gone.

    • dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml
      51·
      2 months ago

      because things moved forward in the last decade or so and it’s not viable. the same way matrix and element and those ridiculous things aren’t viable and never will be. can you use it today? absolutely. can you convert normies to it and make it an actual widely used comms platform? no. fucking. way.

      this is coming from a guy running their own prosody instance and utilizing rocketchat on two separate client instances. yeah, I know how to set it up and deploy it; but the amount of absolutely credible complaints I get from normies forced to use it staggering.

      • sibachian@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        XMPP would be viable in theory but for whatever reason no one wants to build a modern client out of it.

          • sibachian@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            modern as in stable, good UX, plug-and-play, and supporting features a modern chat client is expected to have with zero hassle.

            the stuff needed to convince your mom to install it.

            • ambitiousslab@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              To be honest, I think the above clients and services like Snikket fit that description.

              Now, I wouldn’t say they’re all on the same level UX-wise as WhatsApp, Telegram etc. But I do think they are 90%-95% of the way there, and in my experience that’s enough to convince friends and family to switch over.

              In my experience, when people haven’t wanted to switch, it’s normally not been because of the clients, but because they don’t want to install yet another app to talk to someone.