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Nail no.1 in the coffin for me was when this Durov guy sent an unsolicited telegram-wide message on election day in my country, claiming French interference in our elections.
This is nail no.2 in the coffin.
Guess I’ll get off my lazy arse and delete my telegram account now
great advertisement for signal
I only use telegram to buy illegal iptv subscriptions. Is there a reason I would ever need grok in there?
Yes, because we're only a few weeks away from Artificial General Intelligence, which will create an Artificial Superintelligence, and it'll be just like in the hit cyberpunk novel, Don't Create the Torment Nexus.
now telegram is going to insert random information about South African White genocide to every conversation. or it will be in every recommended reply at least.
There goes my telegram account. Bye, you won’t be missed
Whelp. Same thought :(
I don't know why people stuck with it. I've used it; I get that a lot of the initial success/hype was:
- It's not owned by Meta
- "Putin hates Durov!"
- "Unlimited" storage (lots of people using it as free cloud storage, which is dumb if you value your files)
But your messages are not E2EE by default (only "Secret Chats", which aren't synced across devices)...Telegram (the organization) could always read your messages. I said this so many times and got called everything under the sun.
"Why would they care about my messages though?" ------> Because $300 Million.
This. The second Premium landed I was out, and it was slipping long before that.
First thing i'm doing is opening a channel to run up Grok API calls maliciously
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