• IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world
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      3 years ago

      For a long time it was ran on money that Durov made from VK and it’s selling deal and had no ads, almost perfect development. It was a ton of money obviously, but we all knew it would run out sooner or later and then everything would change. I bought premium once because I wanted to support the project, and I still use it. Hopefully I won’t have to use anything else, because I hate almost any other messenger.

      Edit: forgot “would”

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        3 years ago

        EXACTLY.

        Everyone else here is forgetting that Telegram is still pushing the limits and it’s still one of the best app for messaging (the best in my opinion though), if they’re recurring to this, it’s because money aren’t unlimited.

        Shut the hell up you people: Telegram still isn’t invading privacy and using anti-user practice, the hell you complaining about?

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        3 years ago

        Thank you. I would love to support telegram with premium because they’ve done so much in the past couple years but can’t because I can’t buy premium where I live.

        The main thing that frustrates me is not being able to turn off the emoji interface in their official app.

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          3 years ago

          Same, I don’t want stickers, emojis, gifs. My phone and 4G connection really don’t like them but there’s no way to switch them off

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      3 years ago

      Serious question - isn’t snapchat an absolutely horrible messaging experience? The messages literally disappear, the app is shit, and the messaging interface is shit. And you can see when someone is actively reading the message. I hate all of that.

      Do people seriously use it for day to day messaging with people?

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          3 years ago

          That is fair, I respect that. I think I’m just used to being able to go back and reference something we said to each other from the past.

          Thanks for the response!