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Why would it matter if the servers are open source? How would you ever verify they are running the exact build they claim they are?
It's not about what build they are running. It matters because somebody just glancing at it might misinterpret the situation as "Telegram is open source", but it actually isn't because the server isn't. Just some clients are, which is pretty useless if you can't run a server to talk to them. Just for arguments sake, let's say Telegram gets busted tomorrow in an international sting operation and all their servers get taken offline. The clients will be entirely useless at that point, somebody would have to reverse engineer the server.
I'd like to at the very least be able to run my own server. Not even necessarily federated with the original ones. Just run my own instance if I don't trust the main one runs what they claim.
By running it myself, duh.