Social media app Telegram is profitable for the first time after paying down “a meaningful share” of some $2 billion in debt, Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov said in a post on X Monday.
Where did you get the info? Signal and Viber are indeed blocked but usable via VPNs that a lot of people have anyway. Whatsapp was never even attempted to be blocked and remains absolutely dominant together with Telegram. Matrix is a protocol rather than a platform so can’t really be blocked, but even matrix.org was never blocked either. Simplex was blocked a while ago, but again, it is a protocol, so they could only block the central servers and apparently port 5223 too. But both were quietly unblocked a short time after, no idea why.
Yeah, Matrix is possible I guess but I’ve seen ZERO news on that. You might be confusing it with Simplex, which was blocked for a very short time but silently went back to being fully operational. Not heard any plans for Whatsapp either.
By the way, I am also 100% convinced Telegram is actively cooperating with them. Not sure if the “blocking” was theater from the beginning or just incompetence, but the result is the same. I think there were many cases when Telegram took down undesired channels at least, and I believe it was confirmed it helped with “investigations”.
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Where did you get the info? Signal and Viber are indeed blocked but usable via VPNs that a lot of people have anyway. Whatsapp was never even attempted to be blocked and remains absolutely dominant together with Telegram. Matrix is a protocol rather than a platform so can’t really be blocked, but even matrix.org was never blocked either. Simplex was blocked a while ago, but again, it is a protocol, so they could only block the central servers and apparently port 5223 too. But both were quietly unblocked a short time after, no idea why.
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Yeah, Matrix is possible I guess but I’ve seen ZERO news on that. You might be confusing it with Simplex, which was blocked for a very short time but silently went back to being fully operational. Not heard any plans for Whatsapp either.
By the way, I am also 100% convinced Telegram is actively cooperating with them. Not sure if the “blocking” was theater from the beginning or just incompetence, but the result is the same. I think there were many cases when Telegram took down undesired channels at least, and I believe it was confirmed it helped with “investigations”.