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Re:Telegram has announced a partnership with Tencent by petre on Saturday September 30, 2023 @03:49PM (#37719058)
Slack and Discord are better in this regard how?
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Re:Telegram has announced a partnership with Tencent by Iulioh on Saturday September 30, 2023 @03:53PM (#37719099)
Slack DOES have a good income source (buisness use)

Discord and telegram have premium but discord is way more used and have streaming features (really costly) and telegram premium is not that widespread and no one but power users need it

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Re:Telegram has announced a partnership with Tencent by screechingbagel on Saturday September 30, 2023 @04:41PM (#37719580)
i feel like this is just a western perspective, telegram is very popular in some places and for good reason
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Re:Telegram has announced a partnership with Tencent by jacooper on Saturday September 30, 2023 @05:27PM (#37720003)
I think he meant telegram premium, not the app. Its widespread for the wrong reasons, many people think its secure, its not, its one of the worst. It basically has no encryption at all.
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Re:Telegram has announced a partnership with Tencent by WilTimSon on Sunday October 01, 2023 @01:46AM (#37723029)
Discord has 150 million MAU versus Telegram's 800 million MAU, according to Wikipedia. It's absolutely not way more used.
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Re:Telegram has announced a partnership with Tencent by Iulioh on Sunday October 01, 2023 @03:02AM (#37723443)
Telegram users are way less taxing on the infrastructure than a discord user

And the numbers seems to be more 200/700

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Re:Telegram has announced a partnership with Tencent by jacooper on Saturday September 30, 2023 @05:26PM (#37719993)
Discord is just burning VC money.

Telegram doesnt even have that.

Its based in UAE, with a mere legal presence in Germany, their official explanation is that durov is financing it sincd its beginning in 2014, how? From his VK money.

This could've been believable, if telegram worked like WhatsApp with Minimum storage requirements, but its totally the opposite with huge hosting xosts and no clear funing source.

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Re:Telegram has announced a partnership with Tencent by jacooper on Sunday October 01, 2023 @04:56AM (#37724072)
Costs* Funding* Typos as usual.
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