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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by rozab on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:28AM (#26467121)
Although I suspect Discord is still some way from profitability, it's monetisation strategy seems to be working well (charge subscription for premium membership with small features like custom emojis, animated profile pics, better audio quality). A surprising amount of people go for it.

Telegram has many nerdy hobby communities which could buy the cosmetics or whatever and subsidise the service for the normal users.

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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by moritonal on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:32AM (#26467182)
A thing that a lot of people pay for is the better video screen sharing quality. People are happy to have "just about okay" for free, and "good" for a subscription fee.
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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by IntelMiner on Monday March 15, 2021 @06:15PM (#26469952)
+1 to this. I give Discord something like 5 bucks a month for 1080p video streaming at 60 FPS

There's an "unlocked" 4K one if you want to pay $10 a month but I still only use a 1080p (at 144Hz) monitor, so I'm very happy to pay the small amount

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