GitHub - Mercurygram/Mercurygram: Unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram client for Android
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Unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram client for Android - Mercurygram/Mercurygram

Yes this is a Telegram client and yes it will break the Lemmy’s downvote world record but I still find this one very nice and “actively” maintained. There are not many good Telegram FOSS forks without Google integrations and similar stuff out there.

  • Engywuck@lemm.ee
    21·
    5 months ago

    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·
      5 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.