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Many people are asking what are in Telegram that aren’t anywhere else? I can provide some answers. Telegram is my primary chat app. - It offers you to simply
by rg111 4y ago
Many people are asking what are in Telegram that aren’t anywhere else?
I can provide some answers. Telegram is my primary chat app.
- It offers you to simply share an alphanumeric handle and you can connect with anyone in the world. I can do a voice chat or normal chat really quickly and easily. It is the only famous truly Instant Messenger there is. And I can do it without sharing my name (unlike FB), email address, or phone number (unlike WApp).
- It is the only app where I add any woman to any group outside of family or other close-knit groups. When creepy dudes get women's cell numbers, it sometimes becomes very difficult for the women to handle. In Telegram, you can be part of large or large-ish groups without the women having to share phone numbers or real names. Blocking is really easy and tension-free.
- The video quality in chats is really high. In Android, only Google Duo came close.
- ONLY chat app in market with an excellent desktop app for Linux. Also Windows.
- I love their non-SJW-everything approach to allowed stickers. Emojis can only be PG-13 and "wholesome" (like banning gun emoji and replacing it with water gun- where I live no one owns guns - and guns are irrelevant to my politics and everyone else's). Telegram's stickers are really fun and creative.
- UI/UX is excellent. Really love chat themes and how I can edit them. Many components are customizable. Chat bubble colors, radii of rounded corners, etc.
- I like the fine-grained control over notifications from different chats (groups and persons).
- I like the lack of E2EE. I just like logging in and having access to all my chats. I don't have to be with the same device to be on the same chat.
- The simple yet effective image editor is nice. So is the text formatting with no fuss.
- I often use the auto image resize feature to downscale images.
- It is so seamless. It has replaced email when I want to transfer small files to my own devices.
- I am a selectively social person. It's good that even with 700 mn people, not many people are in it. The people with whom I don't want to interact more aren’t yet in Telegram. That's an appeal to me.
- Developing bots is a bliss. So easy and effective.
- SO helped a bunch of HS kids with their Bio study before a big test, the quiz feature was great. SO is not a technical person, and it was easy for her to set up a group, no phone numbers, create quizzes and so on. She loved it.
- rejectfinite 4y agoDiscord does all this too? + the server rooms.
- fritigern 4y agoDiscord's client apps are not open-source.
- MikusR 4y agoDiscord is electron
- rejectfinite 4y agoYes, indeed. I do like both the Telegram and Discord clients. I use both myself.
- rg111 4y agoI use Discord, some really good programming and AI communities are in it. But I use it in a container tab in FF. I have uBlock Origin installed. I don't trust the electron client to respect my privacy.
- savingsPossible 4y agoCould you share some?
- rg111 4y agoI did not join them just for joining them. I am a Racket enthusiast, and the Racket community on Discord is really nice. There is also a GEB reading server. The fast.ai server. Others are OSSU, Rust, MSFT Python, RL group, Yannic Kilcher, sentdex, Eluether.AI, Mark Saroufim's and Aleksa Gordic's ones, wandb, ConwayLife Lounge, Hugging Face, AI Art, etc.
- annadane 4y agoStop. Stop it. This is such an unproductive reply
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- fritigern 4y ago+1 to everything you said, especially the Linux part. Telegram's Linux Desktop client is great. It's open source and on Flatpak.
- Macha 4y ago> - It offers you to simply share an alphanumeric handle and you can connect with anyone in the world. I can do a voice chat or normal chat really quickly and easily. It is the only famous truly Instant Messenger there is. And I can do it without sharing my name (unlike FB), email address, or phone number (unlike WApp). Has this changed? Last time I looked, you needed a phone number to sign up.
- izacus 4y agoWhile you MAY need a number to sign up, you don't need to GIVE your number to other people so you can communicate with them over the service.
- okamiueru 4y agoI don't understand. I've been using telegram for some years. Could you explain how you would go about using telegram without "signing up"? And by "a number" I understand it to be an option of "not your phone number"? How does the verification go then?
- skyyler 4y agoI believe they are saying that Telegram doesn't expose your phone number to other users on the app unless you explicitly allow it to. I only use Telegram, no WhatsApp / Messenger so I had no idea that this was normal for other chat apps. Terrifying.
- Macha 4y agoWhatsapp shows the phone number as it is your user identifier (and I believe this is also true for Signal). This is not true for Messenger, where it's your facebook account as your identifier.
- Macha 4y agoI think from the reply that they're talking about "Your contacts do not need your phone number, they can message you with just your telegram screen name", but this is different from "Telegram needs your phone number" and "People with your phone number can find your Telegram account from their contacts".
- mrtksn 4y agoWhatsApp Mac app is not native on Mac, it quickly inflates into multi GB RAM consumption and the UI starts lagging even on M1. Very few things bring down this machine to its knees and one of them can be WhatsApp. Telegram is not like that, channels with tons of videos and pictures continue to work smoothly.
- dom96 4y ago> I like the lack of E2EE. I just like logging in and having access to all my chats. I don't have to be with the same device to be on the same chat. Same. I've seen enough people get burned by losing messages because of the E2EE of WhatsApp to prefer to use Messenger and/or Telegram. > - Developing bots is a bliss. So easy and effective. Reason I am using Telegram more these days. I'm house hunting and needed a way for my scraping script to notify me and my partner about houses that the script finds: Telegram works perfectly for this. Just create a private chat group and send a HTTP request to Telegram.
- dmix 4y ago> Emojis can only be PG-13 and "wholesome" (like banning gun emoji and replacing it with water gun- where I live no one owns guns - and guns are irrelevant to my politics and everyone else's). Telegram's stickers are really fun and creative. I appreciate stuff like this too. I hate being treated like a child. Sometimes I want to express "just shot me" with an emoticon, which a watergun ruins.
- SrZorro 4y agoFIY this is not because of Telegram as they use the Apple emoji set https://emojipedia.org/pistol/ https://emojipedia.org/pistol/
- rchaud 4y agoIf you didn't want to be treated like a child, why not just post an image macro of whatever you want, instead of leaning on the app's internal clipart library?
- eastern 4y agoGood list. I would only add 'Send without sound' and 'Schedule send'
- eugene3306 4y agoAlso, it shows proper dates and times for messages. Not that stupid «1 day ago»
- rg111 4y ago- I forgot to mention fine-grained control over calling. I can select, one-by-one, and by groups: who can call me and who cannot.
- tcfhgj 4y ago> - I like the lack of E2EE. I just like logging in and having access to all my chats. I don't have to be with the same device to be on the same chat. You can do that with E2EE as well. Proof: Element/Matrix which btw has excellent bot tooling and alphanumeric usernames as well...