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Pavel Durov: The visionary whose alternative to Facebook was snatched away by the Kremlin and counterattacked with an even bigger hit, Telegram (english.elpais.com)

submitted 7 months ago by dominiquec@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 18 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Don't know, it feels like he was (maybe still is) quite good at marketing and found a good team back in the days, but now they are just another big company trying to make a western WeChat and becoming a monopoly.

I like the product, but I am a bit wary of the founder and their strategic course

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I don't know what Telegram tries to become but given the existence of WhatsApp, it's certainly far off of becoming a monopoly in the foreseeable future.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Well, they are trying to pull out their own cryptocurrency, they integrated a wallet into the app, added an ads marketplace, I think I heard of plans to add apps like in WeChat. Also they added stories, but everyone does that now

Plus, on every occasion of service issues with WhatsApp and other stuff they brag about how many users converted because of that.

I personally dislike WhatsApp for two reasons, one is Meta, and the second is they keep partially losing my message history and contacts every time I migrate to another device

Edit: oh, yeah, and Telegram wants business accounts to be able to use Telegram as a landing, pretty much like many do now with Facebook (this practice I find abominable, but that's another point)

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Well, they are trying to pull...

WhatsApp is being used by literally billions of users. Whatever Telegram attempts, they won't become a monopoly anytime soon.

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