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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    7 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?

    • Clot@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      7 months ago

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

      • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        You didn’t tell me how it’s better in any way, and you told me that it’s worse in a very very important way. So… why would I ever use it?

        Sounds to me like Signal is still the best messaging app.

        • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Telegram is more geared towards group communication. It has a much better group chat experience and a channel feature that lets you disseminate information in a single place without a discussion taking place. It is better at group communications in that it is more feature-rich.

          If you’re doing is 1:1 messaging or have some small group chats with 2-3 friends you wouldn’t get much out of it over Signal.

    • nihilvain@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 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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          7 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.