Here's the message by Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram: "😝 Next month, channel owners on Telegram can start receiving financial rewards from their work. Broadcast channels on Telegram generate 1 trillion views monthly. Currently, only 10% of these views are monetized with Telegram Ads (https://promote.telegram.org/) — a promotion tool designed with privacy (https://t.me/durov/203) in mind. In March, the Telegram Ad Platform will officially open to all advertisers in nearly a hundred new countries. Channel owners…
  • nihilvain@lemmy.mlEnglish
    162·
    9 months ago

    For me:

    • Awesome stickers with very good custom sticker support.
    • You can use a nickname to chat, you don’t need to share your GSM number with anyone which was an incredibly stupid idea in the first place. On that account , better privacy than Signal or ShitsApp.
    • You can use simultaneously on multiple web AND mobile devices.
    • You don’t lose your chat history when you login from another mobile device like in ShitsApp.
    • Stores your media server-side. So you always have your full chat with all the media in it. Of course this requires care about what you share with other.
    • Forwarding messages between chats has a lot of flexibility.
    • Message editing. Which ShitsApp finally copied. 🤣
    • Constantly improved. They are always adding more features.
    • The channel support is really good…
      • nihilvain@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Yes, finally. But I would say a bit late to the party. And a privacy focused IM not thinking about this for years blows my mind.