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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.

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I use LineageOS without any gapps and notifications often work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think you want a CLI client for that.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] -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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's the difference between this and Materialgram?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
  1. Materialgram is for desktop and this one is for Android.
  2. Mercurygram is based on the Telegram FOSS project that removes proprietary bits from the client, making it more privacy-respecting.
  3. Mercurygram adds some new features that stock Telegram doesn't have (though idk anything about them because I'm not a power user).
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago