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Friends vs Telegram : What are the differences?
Developers describe Friends as "Like Slack except P2P, offline friendly, and open source". Friends is like Slack except P2P, offline friendly and open source. We transmit data over secure channels and authenticate messages. It's made by a group of open source developers who are motivated to make a public chat platform that is easy to use but isn't centrally controlled, and where data is owned by its users. On the other hand, *Telegram * is detailed as "A cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service". Users can send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio and files of any type. It provides instant messaging, simple, fast, secure and synced across all your devices.
Friends and Telegram belong to "Group Chat & Notifications" category of the tech stack.
Friends is an open source tool with 3.05K GitHub stars and 356 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Friends's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Friends
Pros of Telegram
- Lightweight16
- Free8
- Unlimited history8
- Great bot API8
- Can hide phone number4
- Media editor3
- Delete without a trace2
- Great bot2
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Cons of Friends
Cons of Telegram
- Requires phone number3
- Notification customisation is limited3
- No video call2