I hope more people realize, protocol is not the problem, user experience is.
The Telegram client leads in every aspect by far. It's just easy to use.
The Telegram client leads in every aspect by far. It's just easy to use.
I really like Telegram, it's the closest thing to what I wish IM should be, but still it's so far from it and to be honest its apps suck now trying to shove the "premium" features down your throat. I prefer using TelegramX (or Forkgram to still be able to see statuses)
[1] $ curl -s https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages |
awk '/^Package: signal-desktop$/{p=1} p{print} /^$/{if(p) exit}'Also, I would not advise to add proprietary repositories as you grant them root access to your system which is against security practices such as the principle of minimum privileges and defence-in-depth.
This is what the FOSS services kinda tend to glaze over, SO MUCH of my personal and professional life is managed by chatting with services that are represented as bots in a chat.
What does the Telegram Bot api have, what Matrixes API doesn't have?
Bots are, on a platform level, presented as bots. It's not a courtesy rule of "please name bot accounts as _bot" or something.
You can do actual payments with the API, it's possible to earn money with a bot.
Custom inline keyboards you can use to operate bots instead of parsing commands like ye olde IRC bots. Like a home automation bot could reply with a list of rooms when you ask for a room temperature, then you just tap the button for that room.
Closed source, walled garden yadda yadda, but it just works.
Discord bots are a bit less robust, but can still do a ton of things "natively" Matrix bots can't.
Frankly speaking, Telegram is also shit. It just sucks a bit less than the rest of them.