I tried to switch to Signal but it feels so damn barren compared to Telegram :(
I want to love it but they make it hard
match@pawb.social 10 months ago
good news! signal has sticker packs
tahoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Signal by design can’t and won’t support big group chats.
Frankly Telegram is socially a reiteration of IRC plus blogs. There are groups where people chat, there are channels where posts have comments. Posts and their comments are visible in the associated group, so all the life of a community is in one place. That’s important for small groups and mobile devices.
Because these two things in the 00s web accounted for most of life.
A TG alternative with ActivityPub identities and proper secret chats would be nice, of course.
frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 10 months ago
The only problem with Telegram = IRC angle is that I can’t scroll up in IRC to see what I missed throughout the day. I legitimately would love to switch my friend group to a self-hosted IRC server, but chat history is important.
cardfire@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I don’t know about any of this. I pretty much only have looked into it for porn and bootlegs of academic papers. Feels like I’m missing out on all the ‘fun’ of ai chats and cult groups.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ai chats
I said nothing about such.
rdri@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My biggest gripe with it is about electron. I refuse to keep it running on my PC. Even the damn Whatsapp converted to something better.
tahoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oof, that sucks if that’s the case
kazerniel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
wait it does? maybe then I can convince my contacts to move there xD Seriously stickers are the main selling point of Telegram for us