td
Cross-platform library for building Telegram clients (by tdlib)
TextSecure
A private messenger for Android. (by signalapp)
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| td | TextSecure | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 985 | |
| 6,468 | 24,843 | |
| 2.2% | 0.6% | |
| 10.0 | 9.9 | |
| 8 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| C++ | Java | |
| Boost Software License 1.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
td
Posts with mentions or reviews of td.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-21.
- India blocks 14 mobile apps used by terrorists in Pakistan (includes Briar, Element, Threema etc.)
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Building a telegram client with react-native (Part 1)
Add to build.gradle(:app) android - see, https://github.com/tdlib/td/issues/1904
Tdlib pre-built library. Android or build from scratch, see TDLib Android example
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Please a linux client... I'm missing it more than a mobile app.
It would be a good idea for Proton to write Drive using something similar to Telegram's https://github.com/tdlib/td. That way they could write their official clients more easily, and third party clients could be created with a lot of the work done.
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possible to use td with golang
https://github.com/tdlib/td is it possible to use td with golang
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telega.el - GNU Emacs telegram client
The problem there is mostly with how they're doing releases for tdlib: They create proper releases for major versions (like 1.7.0, 1.8.0), and then nothing for all for point releases (like 1.7.1), not even git tags - they're seeing those releases as development releases. They do a lot of (breaking) changes and new features between releases - so while distributions might want to stick with proper releases others might want to follow git (and the author is following git with his development branch).
- Telegram has broken compatibility with old clients
- PHP Extension written with C++. Build and check with GitHub Actions.
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What libraries from other languages do you wish were ported over into go?
tdlib, but it's huge
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[Feature Request] Limit/disable/remove option to delete chats on both ends
I think taking advantage of https://github.com/tdlib/td (telegrams library) to build some backup mechanism around it would be the best way forward.
TextSecure
Posts with mentions or reviews of TextSecure.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-06.
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The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper
Moxie's reasons for disallowing Signal distribution via F-droid always rang a little flat to me ( https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127 ). Lots of chatter about the supposedly superior security model of Google Play Store, and as a result fewer eyes independently building and testing the Signal code base. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but independent and reproducible builds seem like a net positive for everyone. Always struggled to understand releasing code as open source without taking advantage of the community's willingness to build and test. Looking at it in a new light after the XZ backdoor, and Jia Tan's interactions with other FOSS folk.
- WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code
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Signal: Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Signal has documentation on how to reproduce their Play Store builds and compare them with what you've installed locally:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...
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Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy
There's nothing on Signal blog as of yet, but Signal's git repository was tagged with v7.0.0 yesterday and we can see from the commit history since the previously tagged version (v6.74.4) that there will be a setting to hide one's phone number [1], as well as disabling the previous default behavior of advertising that one is on Signal to all their contacts already using it [2].
[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/8797236b5... (PNP stands for "Phone Number Privacy")
[2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/6097e6c30...
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What are you shocked people are still doing nowadays?
Signal works the same but without the user tracking from Meta/Facebook. Many people use it as well but I'm surprised that a majority sticks to WhatsApp.
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Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app
Telegram and Signal solve this.
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Apple Just Confirmed Governments Are Spying on People’s Phones With Push Notifications
Sadly yes: Looks like an open issue 13290 for Signal, sounds like they were/are indeed still interacting through google's push notification service, wat, and per a link at that issue it was a chore for Tutanota to break away once they realised it was a problem some years ago (though at least they thought about it years ago? wtf Signal...)
- Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering at Meta
- Are Signal Notifications Encrypted ?
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Facebook & Messenger finally get end-to-end encryption
Rule 1: Posts to r/signal must relate to Signal.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing td and TextSecure you can also consider the following projects:
tg - telegram-cli
undiscord - Undiscord - Delete all messages in a Discord server / channel or DM (Easy and fast) Bulk delete
setup-php - GitHub action to set up PHP with extensions, php.ini configuration, coverage drivers, and various tools.
Signal-TLS-Proxy
mobilecoin - Private payments for mobile devices.
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
Telegram - Telegram for Android source
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
libsignal - Home to the Signal Protocol as well as other cryptographic primitives which make Signal possible.
MaterialAudiobookPlayer - Minimalistic audiobook player
Telegram-Bot-Api-Cpp - Telegram Bot Api C++
Signal-Android - Patches to Signal for Android removing dependencies on closed-source Google Mobile Services and Firebase libraries. In branches whose names include "-FOSS". Uses new "foss" or "gms" flavor dimension: build with "./gradlew assemblePlayFossProdRelease".