Free the server source code so anyone else can create their own server, and have an option to decide to which server you want to get connected. This way, companies could use telegram the way their way, the amount of data managed by Telegram servers would be reduced, and the community could help improving it.
Conversations and data would be obviously stored in the server to which the account is connected to in that moment. By default, the app would be connected to the official Telegram servers, and we would simply have to change it to our own server. Greater security, and even better: the opportunity to show that Telegram is definitely legit, and doesn't spy us.
What you're saying is true, but we would still be using the official Telegram servers for most of purposes (it'd be the only way to stay connected to the rest of the world), only really invested people or companies would prepare their own servers, and most of the time, they wouldn't even have to modify the code, just run it for themselves. At the same time, the community would check for security flaws and help Telegram to become safer.
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It is better to have possibility to use local MTProxy for local users (messages, calls, videos, file transfers). It can solve a lot of troubles when global servers temporary inaccessible.
your example with belarus: no changes are needed, just your own mtproxy on port 443, but already the telegram servers are very good distributed and cannot be simple blocked. They tried to do this in Russia without much success. In Belarus the complete mobile internet was switched off, so that nothing could be sent or received
Yeen Bean
Would be very great for the FOSS community also as TG isnt exactly 100% open source in a way.
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Lennard
Honestly - I don't think that this is going to happen anytime soon, even if I like the idee of a company Telegram a lot: https://t.me/durovschat/515221
The openness of the server-side is fundamental to allow everyone to improve it and to check if there are breaks that Durov and his staff didn't notice (they are humans too, they can make mistakes and oversights). So yeah, it would improve both privacy and sicurity
Bill
Open source code is the best security possible AND ensure that nothing is hidden
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