Can we invest in getting our friends on the independent XMPP standard?
That ship has sailed
Not if we don't want to.
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
#42Interesting 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.
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Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#43Why do you feel entitled to a once trademarked brand name of a radio station on a third party system that is provided for free?
It's not about entitlement, it's about trust.
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#44Interesting 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.
People using throwaways, because they don't want to connect their HN identity to their TG identity?
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Regardless of whether you consider this action just, it is not gaslighting. Gaslighting has a specific definition, and this isn't it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Ultimately, they are looking to raise money for Telegram.
Durov has been funding it with his own savings for more than 8 years, which is great but a project as big as Telegram eventually needs more funding, especially when it's literally Messenger + Google Drive + Social Media + Privacy Respecting. It's hard to make money when the world runs on selling data and obviously, Telegram Premium has not been very successful.
I do not mind the auction of the usernames to be very honest as I understand why they're being auctioned in the first place.
Arbitrary or not, I'm a Telegram super-user, out of the 20 public groups and channels that I have, only one had its username take away and only because it was inactive. Could be a glitch, could be intentional but I do know that it's partly because of me that the channel looked like a dead one.
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#47Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#48It 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…
Three months seems like a rather short time. Twitter gave me 5 years of never having sent a single tweet before telling me they were closing my account.
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#49one of my channels is already up for sale: https://fragment.com/?query=developingit I think they've just screwed up everything telegram was based on, no freedom, no privacy, no security!
How are public usernames related to privacy or security?
Re: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
#50It 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…
Three months seems like a rather short time. Twitter gave me 5 years of never having sent a single tweet before telling me they were closing my account.
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