• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      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

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        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.