Telegram

So Snoop Dogg recently launched his telegram channel and yesterday also published a song on his yt channel about Telegram and Telegram Gifts. Probably the first sponsorship Telegram paid for.

In his telegram channel Snoop Dogg also posted a TMZ article about this thing and the gifts sellout which accompanied the song's publication.

The youtube comments are the most boring hype farming attempt I've seen in a long time, it looks like a window to NFT twitter a few years ago

It looks like Telegram has recently switched to GPT4 for in-app translations:

• https://t.me/s/tgbreaking/436
• https://t.me/s/NewsAndTipsNT/3478

In-app translations of single messages, which are free for all users, have been out of service for more than a week. Telegram was supposedly using Google's translation services, behind a client API proxy method that the apps were calling to request the translation of a message. Before that, when the feature was first introduced, the apps were directly calling a private/undocumented Google Translate http endpoint (weirdly hardcoded in the sourcecode)

Durov recently announced an upcoming deep Grok (lol) integration in the apps

This is just to keep track user-level AI integrations in the app

Just reporting here an exchange between Durov and the French government that happened in the past few days

It started with Durov posting this message in his telegram channel:

A Western European government (guess which 🥖) approached Telegram, asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today’s presidential elections. I flatly refused. Telegram will not restrict the freedoms of Romanian users or block their political channels.

You can’t “defend democracy” by destroying democracy. You can’t “fight election interference” by interfering with elections. You either have freedom of speech and fair elections — or you don’t. And the Romanian people deserve both.

...statement which received a reply by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs Twitter account: https://x.com/francediplo_EN/status/1924138188722815052

Durov later tweeted a few more information (explicit name of the official from which the request was received):

This spring at the Salon des Batailles in the Hôtel de Crillon, Nicolas Lerner, head of French intelligence, asked me to ban conservative voices in Romania ahead of elections. I refused. We didn’t block protesters in Russia, Belarus, or Iran. We won’t start doing it in Europe.

Musk replied twice to durov's tweets

Just leaving this here for the record

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/33036963

Telegram is one of the most popular messaging tools, chosen by many online services to stay connected with their audiences. Major shadow libraries Z-Library and Anna's Archive used Telegram until this week, when both accounts were terminated for copyright infringement. While these websites offer infringing content, both were cautious to avoid copyright troubles on Telegram.

This is similar to how FaceTime and other calling apps work, allowing you to switch apps while keeping your friend in a little PiP (picture in picture) floating window

Note this currently only works for one on one calls, which are also e2e encrypted

❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love!

Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.

Telegram announced on Wednesday that it's adding new ways for creators to make money on its platform.

complete with tabs, bookmarks, history, page zoom and find on page

Title. Everyone who called them out for this (including myself) were banned or muted a week. Likely they're going to be selling ad space which is why they're being aggressive about this. You can't even archive it which means this was on purpose. Forcing something down user's throat and saying "you'll eventually be allowed to hide it" is what I expect from Meta, EA or Microsoft.

What 3rd party app do you use? Plus Messenger is enshitified and I'm looking to get rid of it ASAP

interesting choice, or business as usual?

@partit_pirata presentarà un recurs al TJUE contra el blocatge de @telegram ordenat per la justícia espanyola

https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/pirates-telegram/

#WTF 🇪🇸 High Court orders temporary suspension of #Telegram's services in Spain @telegram

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/high-court-orders-temporary-suspension-telegrams-services-spain-2024-03-23/

Instant View is now available for Telegram Desktop on Windows and MacOS.

I'm so excited for this feature because I use Unigram as my main client for IV. It's one of the most requested feature on bugs.telegram.org. I hope they add support for Linux.

(paywall bypassed)

Every update from the @telegram 's website gets me an worse experience...

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/25160983

Alternative link: https://telegra.ph/Telegram-announces-to-share-its-50-ad-revenue-with-channel-owners-02-28

Throughout January, we added 10 new features to Telegram – including upgraded Saved Messages, one-time voice and video messages that delete after playing, detailed read receipts that show what time your message was read, and much more.

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov on Jan 9 posted that telegram have reached 5 million premium subs. Personally I think giveaways played a big role in this and I believe this would help telegram cover its costs even more. Which is good for us users