Mercurygram: a Telegram FOSS fork with Material You themes and additional features : opensource

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Looks interesting. I don't fully understand how unified push works, though. I'm I right in reading that the author have set up an UP server themselves?

Yes this is a Telegram client and yes it will break the Lemmy’s downvote world record

Because most people live in a echo chamber. Just ignore them.

[–] Shamot@jlai.lu 4 points 11 months ago

Thank you for your comment. Since I deactivated Google Play services, I don't get notifications on many apps. I didn't know there were alternatives. Unfortunately, the app server must be compatible, but if I can have it at least for Telegram with this fork, it would be a good start. I'll take time to compare the different alternatives and see if other push servers are compatible with more apps.

For what I understand, there are self hosted push servers, like NextPush that works on Nextcloud, and some that provide you a server, liked ntfy. For the latter, you have to check the privacy policy to see if it's better than the default Google firebase server.

[+] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That would require the other user to use the same app as you right? Could be interesting.

[–] wurstgulasch3000@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At that point why not use a different app that supports E2EE natively?

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

E2EE is prohibited by Telegram's TOS (you can't make any feature that requires users to use your client to access it).

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Whoa, they not only won't implement it, but will work on not letting anyone else do it. They're more shady than I thought.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They're not shady. They just don't want to lose the market share and I think if they made Telegram really secure, there'd be even more illegal stuff on it and the government wouldn't like it.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

"They're not shady." Begins to describe the shady shit they do

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How is it "shady" to not want to lose market share and keep illegal stuff off of it?

You could argue it's "shitty" (perhaps, but it is their servers after all) but I don't find it shady.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

How is it "shady" to not want to lose market share and keep illegal stuff off of it?

Market share shouldn't be a concern with encrypted chat. If it is then I don't trust it.

If you're making an encrypted chat, you're going to have illegal things on it. If only the chat owners have the keys then that shouldn't be the server owners concern.

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't trust any of these apps that are used by the DEA and trying to get a phone number out of me one bit

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Glad I'm not the only one

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I would strongly recommend libaxolotl/OMEMO over OTR, far stronger algorithm.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago

I used this client recently and found it decent. Though for some reason, Google Play Protect always(wrongly I assume) picks it out despite downloading from F Droid.

[–] American_Jesus@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Using it for some months

[–] ashaman2007@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What are you using for the Unified Push setup? I tried using ntfy and could never get notifications to come through on GrapheneOS

[–] kosmoz@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I use ntfy and have no problems. It's very reliable. No idea about graphene though

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I use LineageOS without any gapps and notifications often work.

[–] featured@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I use ntfy on graphene and it works just fine. I had to fully disable battery optimizations but that was it

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

Have you tried changing server? The default server is overworked.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's the difference between this and Materialgram?

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Materialgram is for desktop and this one is for Android.
Mercurygram is based on the Telegram FOSS project that removes proprietary bits from the client, making it more privacy-respecting.
Mercurygram adds some new features that stock Telegram doesn't have (though idk anything about them because I'm not a power user).

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Cool

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does it have tools to easily remove deleted accounts from groups? Or selecting several contacts from your contact list and deleting them? Because those are big features missing from telegram

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think you want a CLI client for that.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For the group thing, I would expect at least a way to search/filter those accounts while looking at the group's participants, even if I do have to manually remove them. Having to endlessly scroll a list with no apparent order is not fun.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago

I'm not familiar with any clients that have the feature. Make that feature and a merge request yourself I guess.

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