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Einar@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat

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Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat

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Telegram, the popular messenger with 800 million monthly active users worldwide, is inching closer to adopting an ecosystem strategy that is reminiscent
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    The shitty forced “stories” did me question seriously this once wonderful app. If I’d want to look at crappy TikTok-like shorts from other people, I’d be on TikTok.

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      I had the same worry when it happened to signal

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        Signal has stories as well?

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          Inexplicably, yes. It does

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            Hmm, should we add the ability to register from desktop easily? Nah, let’s just add stories)

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          Yes, but the can be disabled, which I do automatically.

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          Yeah but you can trivially turn them off.

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      Once I saw the stories I was like ok wtf. How do I turn this off?

      Maybe revanced manager can do it.

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        I’m using Nekogram, that at least allows to automatically hide (archive) them.

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          Forkgram

          https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/org.forkgram.messenger/

          Seems to be doing the trick for me but the icon sucks and I had to rename it in the android UI cause it uses its package name for its display name lol. How’s nekogram compare?

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            Yeah, the package/display name issue has been a bug for a while in Forkgram. Nekogram just works for me, nothing special apart from some custom options, such as hide stories.

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      I use https://github.com/nikitasius/Telegraher/releases

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        Looks nice but https://github.com/nikitasius/Telegraher/issues/27

        I fear that Telegram may ban user accounts…

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