@tatsumoto

> You don't have to wait for approval.

Because they can revoke they keys at any given time by any reason later on anyway.

> The FOSS version on F-Droid is maintained by people unrelated to the official app as far as I understand.


Cringe and proprietary-pilled language, "FOSS" is a corporate psyop to harm computer freedom and it shows it's effective given it convinced you it's the same as free software, just like Tekegram effortlessly convinced you they're not bad actors. Whoever maintains a proprietary fork doesn't matter as the client itself is still being proprietary.

> There are other forks of telegram on F-Droid as well.

And every single one of them is just as proprietary.

> Using the API is really easy, it's not a problem.

It is a problem as Telegram implements a form of DRM into it, which goes against freedom 0, and therefore GPL is void.


You had every single chance to host your community on a platform that respects user's freedom, is decentralized, fully anonymous and doesn't have the technical issues that Matrix has, which is XMPP, you went for a proprietary one that is not only that but also deceptive, has absolute zero end to end encryption and requires a phone number at all to create account (which you can't using any of the "unofficial" clients, by the way).


Keep larping.