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Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This week, TON Foundation announced that it’s forged a partnership with Tencent Cloud, which has “already successfully supported TON validators and plans to expand its services further to help meet TON’s high compute intensity and network bandwidth needs.” Validators, in web3 lingo, are participants that help authenticate transactions in a blockchain network.

It looks like the partnership with Tencent only extends to their Web3 blockchain thing, and there doesn't seem to be any partnership in the main app so it's not the end of the world - at least, for now.

Also, what even is this TON blockchain? I never knew Telegram had anything to do with crypto :/

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, nah. Anything the CCP can slip it’s slimy festering little dick into, it will.

There’s no way in hell that Telegram is secure.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess, but I don't see how much they can really influence Telegram without any stake in the app itself. They only seem to have a deal for cloud-hosting with the TON Foundation, a non-critical part of the app, and even that appears to be non-exclusive. So if Tencent tries to force a bad decision onto Telegram, what's stopping them from severing ties and moving everything over to another provider?

Of course, we don't know what the situation will be like in the future, but at this present moment, I don't think Telegram's security has been breached by this. (Also I think you triple-posted this comment)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Apologies for triple post. Lemmy seems a bit unresponsive so sometimes I hit ‘post’ a couple of times without realising that it actually registered.