Esra'a (@[email protected])
mastodon.social
@[email protected] It gets a bit worse, Telegram has a long-standing relationship with a Saudi organization that's essentially a govt arm in Riyadh, working in direct partnership to analyze and monitor an obscene amount of user data: https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/641746/SAUDI-ARABIA/Etidal-Telegram-remove-over-16-million-extremist-contents-in-early-2024 They claim this only targets terrorist groups. I can verify that it absolutely impacts groups run by queer communities in the Gulf, because I was in one such group that was monitored and shut down by Etidal. Telegram can fuck off into the sunset.
  • sabreW4K3
    3·
    2 months ago

    Why though? In case of a public chat or a chat with at least few dozens of users it’ll already be excessive if it could work at all.

    For public chats, you wouldn’t need to approve, only for private chat groups.

    Like really P2P or E2E?

    Yep real P2P. The design is inspired by BitTorrent.

    • rdri@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 months ago

      For public chats, you wouldn’t need to approve, only for private chat groups.

      I get that but it kind of defeats the purpose. If your group is so small that it’s worth it for every member to approve new ones then it probably doesn’t produce enough content for each new member to care about.

      • sabreW4K3
        4·
        2 months ago

        See, we’re already the Messenger Working Group 😂