Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat | TechCrunch
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Telegram, the popular messaging app with 800 million monthly active users worldwide, is inching closer to adopting an ecosystem strategy that is
  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    i’ve never understood why people like telegram, it’s not some bastion of virtues, it’s just a shit app like any other that realized that there’s a market for the appearance of privacy.

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It’s a good chat app overall. You just have to treat it like sms and assume there’s no real privacy.

      Also, they’re very generous with file transfer size. It makes shifting things between people so much easier.

      In other words, it’s the features rather than the supposed privacy. If I want privacy, there’s way better options, same for security. But those options suck with some of the more useful things at times.

      Mind you, if they keep going with this shit, it’ll be so bloated that it’ll cease to be a good pick for the stuff I use it for, but there are actually plenty of users that are hyped about the shit whatsapp is doing, and the same goes for telegram.