Telegram

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Telegram is a cross-platform encrypted messaging app. Telegram is a centralized service, with a closed source server and open source clients.

It was founded by Pavel Durov, the creator of vKontakte (the russian analogue of Facebook), and might be considered the doppelgänger of FB Messenger app.

POSSE to Telegram

Telegram supports public and private channels that can be published to via a telegram bot.

IndieWeb Examples

• Grant Richmond syndicates to a telegram channel using Postr
• Sebastiaan Andeweg pointed his old code that called TikTokBot to the Telegram bot API an now receives notification on every successful webmention or micropub request

Micropub with Telegram

PostrChild has a telegram bot that allows posting to your own website using Micropub

Criticism

Bad Cryptography

2013-12-19 Crypto Fails: Telegram’s Cryptanalysis Contest (archived)

See Also

• WhatsApp
• Signal
• ...
• 2018-02-01 Fast Company: Apple pulls encrypted messenger app Telegram from the App Store
• DDoS outage: https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1139060403864866816
  • "Telegram experienced a powerful DDoS attack from China yesterday night.
    
    Protesters in Hong Kong are mainly using Telegram to evade electronic surveillance and coordinate their protests against a controversial bill.
    
    If they cannot censor you, they can DDoS the app you are using." @hardmaru June 13, 2019
• 2024-09-23 Joseph Cox: Telegram Changes Policy, Says It Will Provide User Data to Authorities (archived):

  In an update to its privacy policy, Telegram says it will now share IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities in response to valid orders. The change is a dramatic switch for the social network app, which has become a hotbed for criminals.