> Until recently, 70% of all Telegram usernames had been reserved in inactive channels by cybersquatters from Iran. This created a graveyard of dead usernames that cluttered search results and prevented millions of Telegram users from selecting appropriate public addresses for their accounts, groups and channels.
Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
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#12I am interested to hear telegram's side of this - they generally have a decent track record, i wonder if this is the case of someone screwing up and not intentional malice
He talked about this a month ago: https://t.me/durov/195
> Until recently, 70% of all Telegram usernames had been reserved in inactive channels by cybersquatters from Iran. This created a graveyard of dead usernames that cluttered search results and prevented millions of Telegram users from selecting appropriate public addresses for their accounts, groups and channels.
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#13It happened to channels and groups that were inactive for a long time. Durov did mention this in a message a few months ago that username squatters were becoming a problem. And I was mad at first but it was equally my fault for leaving my public group inactive for more than 10 months, which is probably why the username disappeared. It's a real problem on other social media websites too. For example, a totally inactiv…
> Durov did mention this in a message a few months ago that username squatters were becoming a problem.
This is gaslighting
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#14It happened to channels and groups that were inactive for a long time. Durov did mention this in a message a few months ago that username squatters were becoming a problem. And I was mad at first but it was equally my fault for leaving my public group inactive for more than 10 months, which is probably why the username disappeared. It's a real problem on other social media websites too. For example, a totally inactiv…
> Durov did mention this in a message a few months ago that username squatters were becoming a problem. This is gaslighting
It's not gaslighting if they have analytics to back the claim.
> Until recently, 70% of all Telegram usernames had been reserved in inactive channels by cybersquatters from Iran. This created a graveyard of dead usernames that cluttered search results and prevented millions of Telegram users from selecting appropriate public addresses for their accounts, groups and channels.
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#15> Until recently, 70% of all Telegram usernames had been reserved in inactive channels by cybersquatters from Iran. This created a graveyard of dead usernames that cluttered search results and prevented millions of Telegram users from selecting appropriate public addresses for their accounts, groups and channels. https://t.me/durov/195
now they cannot select "appropriate public addresses for their accounts, groups and channels" as well because most of the names are listed for sale on auction!
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#16if you are not paying, you are a product
I am paying.
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#17Can we invest in getting our friends on the independent XMPP standard?
That ship has sailed
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#18I know several users who've had their names and channels stolen by this absolutely fucking asinine idea from Durov It comes off the back of him trying to fuck over users with NFT's of all things, which received something like 30K "thumbs down" emojis (to about 800 "thumbs up") before having the counter removed I don't know why Durov can't just do what Discord does and offer Premium. Premium garnered a less than stell…
Telegram has had Premium for a few months already: https://telegram.org/blog/700-million-and-premium
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#19what's the guarantee that tomorrow my private channels will not become public instead and all my personal data will be exposed!? wtf is happening with durov!?!?!
There are no such guarantees. People failed to choose a protocol that is trustworthy and fell for pseudo sometimes-on encryption. He is trying to make money while the market is going down.
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#20Can we invest in getting our friends on the independent XMPP standard?
one XMPP server gets big and usernames get squatted and dealt with at the discretion of the server admin.
Only solution is something like how Farcaster does it where you at least get to keep your public key the same and usernames are optional.
https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol#3-identity
Or go the urbit route and make the addresses totally user owned.