keirFoxOh another reason for me to dislike telegram. Sigh.
Can’t people just…communicate? Fucking *express yourself* and *use words*. The “have a machine make thoughts for you” is so damn strange to me.
It’s one thing to have an LLM edit a work email and “make it more professional”, it’s another thing entirely to have it reshape messages to friends. It just reeks of dishonesty, laziness, and bad intentions.
I never want people in my life taking this kind of shortcut with me. It’s so damn gross.
basil_hare@keirFox I don't understand why everyone's being so pushy about LLM features in everything everywhere all the time. Who is asking for these features? Why are we constantly being bullied into using them? Nobody's making any profit of this shit, it's all a huge loss for vaporware that "will one day pay off".
ZuthalNobody's making any profit of this shit, it's all a huge loss for vaporware that "will one day pay off"
that is exactly why it is being pushed so hard, the LLM companies need people to adopt it or the whole house of cards comes crashing down, and most of the rest of the tech industry is financially invested in them
KZorroFuego@keirFox Oh I have, at work... any time I can tell someone responded to me in Teams using 1 of those 2-3 "suggestions" that sometimes pop up, I have this very visceral annoyed reaction, like - they can't even be bothered to RESPOND WITH THEIR OWN SELF?!?!?!
@kzorrofuego I think it’s really problematic for me because I grew up with MUCKs and email in the 90s — communicating through text in those worlds it was encouraged that you be verbose and descriptive! This collided horribly with the early 2000s SMS-speak — I had a boss who would substitute “2” for “too”/“to” in email because “it was faster and the message still got across” which drove me to madness. Now that generation of people is elated to have a machine expand their thoughts and ideas out for them.
digitalfox@keirFox This is where I am thankful Telegram isn't as hostile to third-party clients as Discord and Signal (!) are.
Still, it sucks…
Piko Starsider 
@digitalfox @keirFox Signal is not hostile to third party clients, at least if you don't call them "signal". Check out molly IM, a fully compatible fork of the android app.
@starsider You have a fair point. Hostile might be the wrong word - perhaps "discouraged by policy."
The tune seems to have changed over the years compared to earlier on. Now it looks like it's just "no backwards compatibility." If you're not building from a fork of an existing app (as Molly is), it seems hard for folks to keep pace. Presage as a library seems promising.
That's fair for a security-above-all-else messenger.
I'm just wanting to pull folks across apps into one place on my server, and so many Signal bridge-clients have died. Somehow, despite everything Discord has developed over the past 3 years and third-party clients being against their Terms of Service, they still haven't broken their core chat API.
Claude LeChat@keirFox First it was "I have nothing to hide", now it's "I have nothing to think": https://ploum.net/2026-04-10-rien-a-penser.html
