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Telegram has always felt like the catch-up of the messenger apps. I don't know a single person who uses it.
by dangoodmanUT 2y ago
Telegram has always felt like the catch-up of the messenger apps. I don't know a single person who uses it.
- filleokus 2y agoI know a quite a lot of people (including me) who use it as a kinda RSS reader to keep up to date with Russian cyber security threat actors.
- lukan 2y agoMany do. But most use it as a forum software, or to send files, than as a messenger.
- sitzkrieg 2y agoi use it for messaging and everyone else i know does too. "most"? any sources?
- lukan 2y ago"Most" was anecdota here. Oh and I also use it for messaging sometimes. But my main use case is participating in various groups, like in a forum way. And my peer group does the same and I have not met a single person that uses telegram mainly for messaging. Most also have signal or whatsapp for that.
- vbezhenar 2y agoI don't know a single person who doesn't use Telegram.
- School-Cotton 2y agoWhat country do you live in?
- vbezhenar 2y agoKazakhstan.
- School-Cotton 2y agoThat makes sense, AFAIK Telegram is most popular in the post-Soviet countries.
- baq 2y agoThat in itself is a red flag. Things don't 'just happen' in those places. Don't ask me how I know.
- nexoft 2y agoSame In the EU, no ones that's legit uses Telegram, except scammers that you can run into in local "graigslist" website.
- hifromwork 2y ago"Same in the EU" - but you're actually make an opposite statement than the GP (GP said "everyone i know uses telegram" and you said "nobody uses telegram")
- nexoft 2y agoindeed you are right, I did read the opposite for some reason.
- baq 2y agoI don't know a single person who does. Yeah, plenty have accounts, but nobody uses it to actually chat.
- billpcs 2y agoI use it since 2014 and have felt that it's very performant (more so than Signal or Whatsapp, Messenger, or Viber). Also, it adds many useful features that other messengers didn't always have and many still don't have, for example Saved Messages, Scheduled Messages, Spoiler Messages, Reply to Message, message formatting (bold, monospace, etc), just to name a few off the top of my head.
- kreyenborgi 2y agoSignal has "Scheduled Messages, Spoiler Messages, Reply to Message, message formatting (bold, monospace, etc)". I don't know what Saved Messages are, maybe it doesn't have those. Oh, and it's end-to-end encrypted by default.
- billpcs 2y agoIt does, in Signal it's called "Note to Self". I am saying that in general, Telegram is the first to offer such new feautres.
- troupo 2y agoAs with any messenger, it depends on countries and regions and groups of people. Everyone in my friend group is using it. In terms of functionality, speed, fluidity of the interface everyone is trying to catch up to Telegram. And doing a half-assed job of it
- lyu07282 2y agoI don't think Signal is even trying tbh
- HatchedLake721 2y ago?! Telegram is often praised here for their features that helped them to grow and made people keep using it. Something that Signal should consider doing. They have 900million monthly active users.
- dannyw 2y agoYes, their app and UX is absolutely delightful.
- TacticalCoder 2y agoI don't get this. I'm in the EU and nearly everybody I know has Telegram. Telegram has a huge advantage versus WhatsApp: it's not Meta. Then the Telegram UI is really excellent. When you tell people all your friends and family are using it and that's it's not from Facebook, they usually install it on the spot. Then they're hooked.
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- conradfr 2y agoI'm in France and don't know anyone using it. Except the government, as reported in the news. Actually the only time I used it it's because I needed to chat with a Russian SaaS personnel.
- rahen 2y agoI know few people who use Telegram either. All my contacts and I use Signal here.
- yodsanklai 2y agoI don't mind WhatsApp being Meta but Telegram is more lightweight and UI is far superior (for instance, ability to edit messages). Unfortunately, most people still use WhatsApp, you can't really avoid using it.
- oytis 2y agoFor Russian language content it feels a lot like pre-enshittification internet. You get blogs on all possible topics without ads or "Algorithm". Just read what you subscribed to, in whatever order you want. I would never trust in with any confidential information though.
- kome 2y agoThis is the most out of touch comment. Everybody is running after telegram, they are innovating all the time. If you want to see what Whatsapp will look like in a year, use telegram now.
- konart 2y agoCan say the same for Viber and to a lesser extent Whatsapp. Not to mention Signal. I'd guess popular IRC servers have more real users than Signal.