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.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          9 months ago

          Yeah, it looks like a centralized service that behaves like a distributed one. I may even (re)learn Haskell to properly understand it.

          It also looks like it’s intended to be used for applications, so that’s pretty cool too.