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by 71bw 666 days ago
>Telegram is used by Russia, terror groups, and so on.

As well as a lot of people in CIS countries (including Ukraine), people fed up with Meta and probably 95% of Android custom ROM communities (wild guess, do not quote me on that).

Not to mention platforms like, for example, Discord. Also used in Russia. Also probably used by terror groups. But it's okay because we are supposed to like "our" platform.

>It's always funny to hear people talk about free speech in that situation.
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BlueTemplar 666 days ago
While Discord Inc. is based in San Francisco, Tencent (China) owns Discord, most likely at a majority stake, considering how they have been funding the devs before they even had the idea for it.

Also one big difference might be that Discord is part of the Deep Web (requiring an account and an invitation to its chatrooms to even see what is going on there), while Telegram seems to be mostly on the Open Web, even providing an interface to be crawled ?

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71bw 666 days ago
>While Discord Inc. is based in San Francisco, Tencent (China) owns Discord

Good to know it's yet another one in the never-ending Tencent spectrum.

>Telegram seems to be mostly on the Open Web, even providing an interface to be crawled ?

Theoretically yes, but in practice I've found it only works good with big (as in, popular - with a lot of members) channels, and even then history is wonky and you can't grab files without an account. Pictures do work fine, videos don't AFAIR.

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