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Finally got rid of telegram, congratulations to me (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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It was a many months transition, and it's finally done

Fun thing, you can actually make a backup of all* your messages, groups, contacts, etc. So before leaving you can have all of your data in case you need that one contact or something

The final red flag was as that allegedly Russian authorities were messing with people's deleted messages. Not for the first time there are news that they could read, modify, delete, see location, and etc. Screw it, this is unsafe, I'm out.

Also, these days telegram is really at the state of a pile of garbage, bloated, buggy, and shady messenger.

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[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I must agree on the bloated part. Telegram was awesome before Pavel got greedy and added more and more stuff that are just not related to any chat service, for an example payments and crypto.

I installed Snikket on my server few weeks ago and are now trying to move everyone to it. It seems to be a very slow process, though.

But I might keep Telegram only for the porn channels. Mighty good stuff!

By the way. Do you have the source for your claim that Russian authorities were messing with people's deleted messages?

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

XMPP, 🙂

[–] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh, yeah, the porn channels are really good indeed

I'm thinking if I can access them from some telegram channel mirror

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Well, Telegram already have a preview feature for every public channels. Just copy the direct link to the channel and add /s after t.me/ (or choose "Previous channel" without opening the link in Telegram) and you're good to go. If only Pavel will add an RSS feed to that feed. That would be mighty-mighty awesome!

More work to save the media files, though. You have to inspect the element and get the direct link to the image through background-image for the tgme_widget_message_photo_wrap class. Much easier and takes less time to just save it inside Telegram, as of now.

[–] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good advice, but I will look into converting some to RSS and read in an RSS reader

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I just one a solution for that: RSS-Bridge. Just tried it through one of their instances and it works really well. At least for some of the channels.