• totallynotfbi@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      This week, TON Foundation announced that it’s forged a partnership with Tencent Cloud, which has “already successfully supported TON validators and plans to expand its services further to help meet TON’s high compute intensity and network bandwidth needs.” Validators, in web3 lingo, are participants that help authenticate transactions in a blockchain network.

      It looks like the partnership with Tencent only extends to their Web3 blockchain thing, and there doesn’t seem to be any partnership in the main app so it’s not the end of the world - at least, for now.

      Also, what even is this TON blockchain? I never knew Telegram had anything to do with crypto :/

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    Telegram is a suprisingly good app.

    • Open source clients
    • Decent Linux client on the laptop (whatsapp desktop is just terrible)
    • It can be downloaded without Google’s appstore.

    I wish other apps were half as good as Telegram.

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      Telegram has the best clients ever. But those clients need to connect to something and this is where we encounter a big problem.

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        It bothers me that the major complaint is not the privacy issues or the people who own it behind the scenes…

        but the technology used to build the desktop application. Electron is just a tool.

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        Hasn’t the founder been a vocal critic of Russia for years, including the Ukraine war? I don’t really see why that would be a concern, especially since Telegram is supposedly owned by a US LLC

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          Russia has an army of “vocal critics” who play an important role in the pantomime, you see them on RT regularly. It doesn’t prove anything.