Can you prove your channel was active and not dead just for squatting?
Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
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Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#32It 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
That's not gaslighting
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#33Telegram is a social network delivered through a messaging front end, which is confusing when you expect it to behave like a messaging service. It isn't one any more than Facebook or Twitter are.
Telegram now is more akin to Discord and Twitter with bots, channels and public groups. It's been some time Telegram has moved from personal chatting app as WhatsApp.
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#34what'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!?!?!
Nothing, they took away usernames which were holded by squatters.
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#35It 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…
I've successfully taken a username from a squatter by reaching out to github support. As long as the user doesn't have active private stuff they might be willing to help you get the username.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try.
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have to pay for servers somehow. Selling long dead channel handles is better than privacy invasion.
It's not better when it comes at the cost of taking some of those handles away from people that were using them.
But they weren't using them. That's the whole point.
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Durov did mention this in a message a few months ago that username squatters were becoming a problem. This is gaslighting
That's not gaslighting
Having inactive usernames is not an actual issue when people can just use other names. He is just trying to make more money by selling them and he is blaming it on the users. "See, they did not use the names in the artificially short period that I defined. I had no other option than taking them away and selling them to the highest bidder."
Obviously he's not only selling Iranian names.
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#38Interesting how many green accounts are in this thread describing the same problem with the exact same typing style. All of them made within the last two hours.
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#39It 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…
I've successfully taken a username from a squatter by reaching out to github support. As long as the user doesn't have active private stuff they might be willing to help you get the username.
That's not an option any more. GitHub used to offer this, but as of about 12 months ago, the policy changed and they will not release a name that is inactive regardless of how long it has been inactive.
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#40Can 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.
Federate messaging servers and make addresses domain specific. Works fine for email.