Here's the message by Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram: "😝 Next month, channel owners on Telegram can start receiving financial rewards from their work. Broadcast channels on Telegram generate 1 trillion views monthly. Currently, only 10% of these views are monetized with Telegram Ads — a promotion tool designed with privacy in mind. In March, the Telegram Ad Platform will officially open to all advertisers in nearly a hundred new countries. Channel owners in these countries will start receiving 50% of any revenue…
  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I don’t understand Telegram, it just seems like Signal, but worse. Can someone explain to me what the purpose of Telegram is?

    • zod000@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      A good cross platform user friendly client goes a long way, especially having a good desktop version.

    • nihilvain@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      For me:

      • Awesome stickers with very good custom sticker support.
      • You can use a nickname to chat, you don’t need to share your GSM number with anyone which was an incredibly stupid idea in the first place. On that account , better privacy than Signal or ShitsApp.
      • You can use simultaneously on multiple web AND mobile devices.
      • You don’t lose your chat history when you login from another mobile device like in ShitsApp.
      • Stores your media server-side. So you always have your full chat with all the media in it. Of course this requires care about what you share with other.
      • Forwarding messages between chats has a lot of flexibility.
      • Message editing. Which ShitsApp finally copied. 🤣
      • Constantly improved. They are always adding more features.
      • The channel support is really good…
        • nihilvain@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Yes, finally. But I would say a bit late to the party. And a privacy focused IM not thinking about this for years blows my mind.

    • Clot@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Its better than signal in every aspect except privacy (still better than whatsapp in that and arguably a secure messaging app).

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It works, on every OS, seamlessly, for instant messaging (which is all I use it for).

      I use multiple devices throughout the day, and all messages show up instantly on every device, while supporting file transfers, etc.

      It just works.

      Signal is like using SMS. The UI sucks. And no sync between devices. I appreciate what they’re trying to do (which is why sync between devices is challenging), but I can’t get anyone to use it anymore since they dropped SMS support.