Anyone still uses Telegram?
Like 1B monthly active users.
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pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Anyone still uses Telegram? What is really their selling point? We already got WhatsApp and Signal.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
by my experience mostly straight eastern europeans. everyone else either started on something else or they moved off telegram because they didn’t feel like they could trust it
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 4 weeks ago
I do
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Weird comparison.
WhatsApp is a kinda secure messaging app - small groupchats and personal chats first.
Signal is a secure messaging app - small groupchat and personal chats only.
TG is an app for big groupchats and channels, with dozens of people writing to one chat simultaneously, discussing big posts etc. It’s, once again, like IRC, just proprietary, with history and sharing files. Or like a social network without friends and feeds.
Honestly I can’t even blame TG for enshittificatory practices, because it gives so much more freedom to use it however one wants than the others. Even though I prefer to blame everything. All these things have taken a lot of work to create.
tauren@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You make it sound like that’s the sole purpose. There are 1:1 chats in Telegram and people actively use them. Everything else builds on top of that.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s the only important advantage over anything else.