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Our Telegram
Named group chats with your own people.

Our Telegram is group chat you run yourself. Start a named group, add the people on your install, and everyone in it shares one thread that arrives live as it is written. Nothing leaves your own server and no phone number is involved.

A group is a set of named members with an owner, and that membership is the rule: only an active member can read or write, and only the owner can add or remove people. A group message is not a post — it is not published, not adapted for a network and not sent to any connector — which is what keeps a private group private. Delivery reuses the same live channel as the chat beside your videos and your direct messages, so a line appears as it is written without a second system to run.

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Step by step

How to start your first group

Every step is the real one in your own install. Nothing is sent to a third party and no phone number is needed.

  1. STEP 01

    Have people to add

    Groups are with the people on your install. If you are the only person here, add a team member on the People page first — they will appear in the picker.

  2. STEP 02

    Open Groups

    From your workspace, open Our Telegram. It lists the groups you are in, most recently active first, and it is where a new one starts.

  3. STEP 03

    Start a group

    Choose “New group”, give it a name, and optionally pick the people to add. You are the owner of any group you create.

  4. STEP 04

    Write and send

    Type your message and send it. It appears in the thread straight away, and for the other members as soon as they are looking at it.

  5. STEP 05

    Manage the members

    Add people or remove them from the group's member list. A member can leave at any time; only the owner can remove someone else.

What it does

Everything a group needs, and nothing that leaves

  • A group with a name and an owner

    A group has a name, an optional topic and one owner who administers it. That is stated in the data, not left to code: the owner is written into the group and into its member list, so there is never a group nobody can manage.

  • Membership is the rule

    Only an active member can read a group or post to it. Anyone else gets the same answer as a group that does not exist, so a private group is never confirmed to a stranger, let alone shown.

  • Add, remove and leave

    The owner adds people from your own directory and removes them again; a member can leave a group they no longer want. A member who leaves keeps their place in the history, so rejoining is one action, not a fresh start.

  • Messages arrive as they are written

    New messages are pushed to the other members over a live stream, so a line appears as it is sent rather than on a refresh. If the live stream is ever interrupted, the thread still updates on a short interval, so a message is late rather than lost.

  • Every line has a byline

    A group is many people, so every message names who wrote it. The byline is kept with the message, so the history still reads correctly even after someone has left.

  • An owner can pull a line, and archive a group

    Hosting content makes it your problem, so the owner can remove a message from a group. Archiving a group takes it out of use but keeps every message readable — pulling a group never destroys what was said in it.

Questions

Questions people ask

Straight answers, and where something is not built yet it says so.

What is Our Telegram?
Our Telegram is group chat that runs on your own server. Start a named group, add the people on your install, and everyone in it shares one thread with messages delivered live as they are written. Nothing is sent to a third party and no phone number is needed.
Who can be in a group?
The people on your own install — the same directory your wall and photos use. There is no global directory, so you cannot add a stranger, and nobody outside your server can read a group.
Can anyone else read my group?
No. Only an active member can read a group or post to it, and every read checks that you are one. Anyone else gets the same answer as a group that does not exist, so a private group is never shown — or even confirmed — to someone who is not in it.
Who can add or remove people?
The group's owner. Adding and removing members is the owner's act, and a member can always leave a group themselves. The owner cannot be removed — to close a group you own, you archive it.
Do I need a phone number?
No. There is no phone number, no SIM and no external account. You chat with people on your own install, and the messages are rows in your own database.
What happens when a group is archived?
An archived group takes no new messages, but every message already in it stays readable. Pulling a group is reversible and never destroys what was said in it.

Our Telegram is ready on your install

It is part of Anamean and it runs on your own server — nothing to register, nothing to approve.

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