Telegram

https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1695064773732274222

Further details on how Stories work here: https://telegram.org/tour/stories

I feel like this is one of those features that would have help bring in a lot more uses if it was free

This might be common knowledge by now considering how easy it is to find this repository, but it's new to me so I'll share: apparently, the desktop app developer is actively working on rewriting their app using tdlib.

Telegram Desktop would be the first official app to use tdlib. Right now, the only telegram-related app that uses it is Telegram X, which is an experimental app. The bot API, though, has always ran on tdlib since day one.

Did anyone else notice there's no update post on https://telegram.org/ for the latest update? I don't recall this ever happening, let alone with the launch of a feature as big as stories?

Anyone have any idea what's up?

I've been an avid Telegram user for quite some time now and I've noticed something interesting lately. Whatsapp, which has historically lagged behind Telegram in terms of features, seems to be rolling out new updates at a faster pace. It almost feels like they hired a developer from Telegram.

It's hard to ignore some of the recent additions to Whatsapp that Telegram has had for ages. Examples are

- Multiple device support: Not quite the way it's implemented in TG but close.

- Channels

- Block calls from non-contacts

While it's possible that WA dev team has stepped up their game and Meta(Facebook) is known for blatantly copying features, I can't help but wonder if there's something more going on behind the scenes.

I am still waiting for be able to change the ringtone for when someone is calling, though.

Federal Interior Minister Faeser can chalk up a success: After weeks of efforts to get Telegram to delete right-wing extremist channels, the messenger service is finally responding. This also affects the chats of conspiracy theorist Hildmann.

After massive pressure from the German government on Telegram, the company is taking noticeable action against hate and incitement on the net for the first time in Germany, according to a report. The online service has blocked a total of 64 channels, the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" reported, citing security circles. According to the report, these include the channels of anti-Semite and conspiracy ideologue Attila Hildmann. The closure is said to be due to pressure from the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). The BKA had sent corresponding deletion requests to Telegram, the newspaper further reported.

A total of 64 have been taken into account so far, it said. According to the report, a second working-level conversation between the government and Telegram had taken place on Thursday. The government and the company wanted to "continue to remain in close exchange," it said after the talks, according to SZ. The company's founder Pavel Durov had already assured this in the first conversation, in which he himself had participated. The Ministry of the Interior has long demanded that hate and incitement on Telegram be outlawed and removed. So far, however, the company has not complied with the legal obligation to delete.

Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser reiterated that she will continue to crack down on the Telegram case. "Telegram must no longer be an accelerant for right-wing extremists, conspiracy ideologues and other agitators," she told the newspaper. "Death threats and other dangerous hate posts must be deleted and face clear criminal consequences." Faeser sees the company's first major deletion action as a success of weeks of pressure on Telegram.

"The Federal Criminal Police Office has significantly strengthened the investigation," she said. "I have built up clear pressure from the first day in office to get Telegram to cooperate. That pressure is working." Telegram is used by radical vaccination opponents and contrarians, among others, to network for so-called walks against Corona measures. The Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution had recently complained, for example, that a particularly large number of coup fantasies were spread there. The platform was also used by numerous right-wing extremists.

(Translated from German with DeepL)

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What the fuck is this?

The new UX and UI of Telegram reactions on desktop and mobile is so much better. What do you think? Do you use them?

I also wanted to share this issue, upvote it please! Search messages by reaction: https://bugs.telegram.org/c/12765

The German Federal Office of Justice is of the opinion that Telegram is not a pure messenger service, but a social network. This means that Telegram must comply with the requirements of the Network Enforcement Act, just like Facebook and Twitter. This includes setting up an easily accessible reporting channel for punishable content and appointing an agent for service of process for requests from German courts. As a result, two fine proceedings are underway against the company, which is based in the United Arab Emirates. "The requirements of the Network Enforcement Act are binding - and the law does not recognize a blanket exception for Messenger services," Buschmann told 'Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland' on Friday.

dpa:211210-99-328460/2

(Translated with DeepL)