Telegram is giving away FREE Premium subscriptions! All they need from you is to use your cell phone as a relay to text out their OTP codes! And the recipient of the OTP sees your phone number! What could POSSIBLY go wrong with this deal?

PLEASE don’t use Telegram! I personally recommend Matrix as it’s totally FOSS, you can self host, there are tons of front end clients to choose from. Or even use Signal. I have my own issues with Signal, the fact they don’t allow third party clients, you can’t self-host, they have a proprietary shim in their stack that only they know what it does, they were pushing crypto, etc, but at least Signal is better than this garbage.

  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    Matrix still doesn’t have a multi account client with threads.

    I don’t mind Matrix, but every time I bring this up to a hard core Matrix defender to how the clients are lacking, they don’t have much to counter.

    • toastal@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Gajim, Dino, Conversations support multi-account clients. Threading doesn’t tend to work the same way tho.

    • AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      I’m writing a new Matrix client that’s focused specifically on being a Discord-like dead simple experience for professional people – it’s under GPLv3 and written in pure Dart

      Probably will have the first actual release in one to two months – please tell me what you would like in terms of features so I can shove it into my already massive backlog

      • bay400@thelemmy.club
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        8 months ago

        A client that is basically a ripoff of Telegram would be ideal for me, for what it’s worth

        Main features I like are replies, reactions to messages (also double tap to react with a default emoji), and that view where you can open a chain of replies like it’s its own conversation (I’m assuming this is what is meant by “threading”/“threads”)

        Lastly, maybe the uncompressed and compressed photo/video options if that’s not already a thing

        If it had the above I would probably like Discord style too

        • AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml
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          8 months ago

          Most of that is already covered by an existing Matrix client called FluffyChat too, if you want something right now

          And sure, I mean I never saw any usage in threading but I guess some people really do be liking their threads