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One marketing executive’s “super” is another man’s “crammed full of crufty garbage that nobody wants.”
I use and love Telegram. I use almost all of its features. All of its clients are open source. It has an incredible API for writing bots (which I also do). Their desktop Linux app is native! When I’m traveling I use Stories to share the experience with friends and family. I love the new topics to separate group discussions. It’s the one app I’ve been able to onboard absolutely everyone to. I was never able to do the same when I tried to with Matrix and you only get so many chances before people stop moving.
What is crufty garbage to you?
Stories. Why they are in a messenger? Especially in such a pesky way.
They’re pesky? It’s the only messenger that has them but has them tucked away completely unintrusively. I‘m not a fan of stories but in Telegram I‘ve barely noticed them…
Heavy user of telegram myself. It is by a country mile the slickest, leanest, most UI guideline-adhering, quickest app to use, on all of its platforms.
Sounds like a bunch of crap I don’t want, and they’re adding more crap according to this article. And if they are indeed going the way of WeChat, becoming a “super app” and partnering with Chinese and crypto companies, that makes me very nervous about privacy.
Not sure if you’ve used WeChat or any of the telegram app-platform features … it’s just web code that gets loaded in on demand. It’s not like the app is built with all this shit by default, it just loads customised HTML-like code when you activate an app.
…and then everything you do and say gets monitored by the CCP…
I use Telegram for the random chatter but it’s getting bloated ever since they added premium features. I understand they have to make money, but some features like stories can’t be disabled at all, and they’re selling group names with crypto. Matrix is looking a lot better moving forward.
Matrix is looking a lot better moving forward.
Especially that their clients are becoming usable even without limiting yourself in how many rooms have you joined.
but some features like stories can’t be disabled at all,
That’s worrying. Hopefully the FOSS fork will add a toggle for it, or a new fork will appear
As long as I can use Telegram with open source third party apps I give a shit about their bullshit.
What 3rd party app would you recommend to use telegram? I’m getting really annoyed by the stories thing at the top.
I’m using TelegramFOSS right off F-droid and until I read this thread I didn’t even know there was a stories feature
I’m a nekogram user but also heard a lot of good things about forkgram
Thanks for the heads up! Already installed Nekogram and uninstalled the default app. No stories bs anymore.
Life’s good again! 🤓
do they remove stories and other bloat?
To be honest, I didn’t know about this nonsense before that post. So no, atleast Nekogram focuses on being a messenger.
Heeeeere we go, get ready to buy your Verification Label for $2/month or some whit
I don’t trust anything that needs a phone number
Lmao meanwhile X…
Yeah, Musk bought the wrong company.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Telegram, the popular messenger with 800 million monthly active users worldwide, is inching closer to adopting an ecosystem strategy that is reminiscent of WeChat’s super app approach.
To build out this super app platform, Telegram relies on a network of infrastructure partners both from the established tech world and the crypto space.
WeChat has pioneered the mini app model in China and now powers millions of them serving functions from payments, food delivery, e-commerce, ride-hailing, to driver’s license renewal, just to name a few.
The developers would also need to learn the programming languages of blockchain apps, which might actually be an easier barrier to overcome than the process of understanding the economic incentives that facilitate decentralized applications.
Importantly, payment functionality played a critical role in WeChat’s early rise as it instilled a habit among users to make daily transactions through the chat app.
It will be fascinating to witness what lessons Telegram and TON take from WeChat and how a mini app platform with a decentralized twist unfolds.
The original article contains 678 words, the summary contains 169 words. Saved 75%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
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.
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.
It treats desktop clients as first-class citizens. That’s a huge, huge advantage over Whatsapp, for me.
WhatsApp desktop isn’t so bad nowadays, ever since they made it so you can use it without running through your phone. But I agree that Telegram’s desktop client is much better.
My colleague likes it and use it all the time. He doesn’t really care about privacy and he often brings up cool features telegram has, like simple photo/video editor, shrink tool for media, newsfeed, etc. Which all seems quite polished and very usable. If only it wasn’t such a mess in its core.
