Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook
by paulpauper on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:29PM
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telegram is way overrated. too hard to create an account, takes up too much memory, accounts do get closed for automated/arbitrary reasons. not at all like described in the article .
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How does it take up too much memory? It has the very best client on every single platform.
Maybe that person is comparing it to more traditional chat clients like Pidgin or Hexchat. Right now on my Manjaro desktop, Telegram is using 230mb of RAM, while Pidgin is taking 46mb. That being said, its a hell of a lot better than Slack, which could use up several gigabytes if you were in multiple groups.
One should also check Telegram settings for media downloads\autoplay. This may change memory consumption drastically.
on my desktop tg would routinely eat up to much memory so that i am now starting it with a script that sets a hard memory limit. haven't had a problem since.
Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook
by ilrwbwrkhv on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @11:12PM
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its the best msging app. the features are wonderful and their art style and ux is fabulous.
Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook
by kasper_kerem on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @03:47AM
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Accounts getting closed is the case of any major platform. If it is for fighting against bots and robots, it is a good thing. If it is fighting against humans, not so good. I have a opinion, that nobody should be censored/cancelled - it just makes them more angry and furious and will not change how they think or act.