• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Yep.

    It’s straightforward, just works, on every device. Like messengers did years ago.

    Easy to login to a new device and instantly start messaging there, with history - just need a current device to verify you.

    It’s why I use it. I’d happily use it for friends and family, if I could get them on board. At least it’s not WhatsApp, or something from Google that will die sometime soon.

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      8 months ago

      I’m very lucky that all my friends adopted it - it was one of the few clients that everyone knew of (we are distributed across a lot of countries now; US, UK, France, Brazil mainly).

      When I’m forced back to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger or iMessage I feel like a race driver being told to ride a bicycle. Telegram’s feature set isn’t just the fullest, it’s also revealed in the best UX, where it somehow manages to be fully decked out but not seem bloaty.

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        8 months ago

        It got pretty bloated in recent years with reactions and animated stickers to name a few

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          8 months ago

          Myeah, I agree that they’ve added quite a lot of features. But I do think they’re very well hidden, while remaining discoverable. You can use them if you like; if not they don’t get in the way. YMMV of course.

          • Clot@lemm.eeOP
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            8 months ago

            The plus point is, telegrams client is open source, so you can always make a client which is less bloated (I am sure there are plenty already in the market).