Telegram is the dominant social, communication, and media platform in the Russian-speaking part of the internet. I think it is more dominant than Facebook was in the US in its heyday (and you surely heard that for many people, “Facebook meant the internet”). So currently, for many Russian speakers, the internet is basically YouTube for videos + Telegram for everything else.
My understanding (but not sure) is that Telegram is also dominant in Iran and Ethiopia (combined population > 200 million), but I have no idea what is the situation with spam in these sectors of Telegram.
I think Telegram is also huge in Brazil, but not dominant.
if you wanted a more open system for groupchats, why not just use discord?
This is a rhetorical question. I just tell you where a lot of people are right now, and where LLM-enabled spam is a huge problem right now. I think these are the conditions that you should be looking for if you want to test Web of Trust mechanisms at scale. But, of course, you might make a normative decision not try help Telegram to grow even bigger because you are not satisfied with its level of openness and decentralisation. Though, I want to note Telegram is more open than any other major messaging platform: its content API is open, anyone can create alternative clients.
But, of course, you might make a normative decision not try help Telegram to grow even bigger because you are not satisfied with its level of openness and decentralisation
It is likely. I don’t want to extend the reign of systems that aren’t deeply upgradeable/accountable/extensible.
And it’s not even as simple as proprietary vs open source, an open source project can be hostile to contributions, or lack processes for facilitating mass transitions in standards of use.
Telegram is the dominant social, communication, and media platform in the Russian-speaking part of the internet. I think it is more dominant than Facebook was in the US in its heyday (and you surely heard that for many people, “Facebook meant the internet”). So currently, for many Russian speakers, the internet is basically YouTube for videos + Telegram for everything else.
My understanding (but not sure) is that Telegram is also dominant in Iran and Ethiopia (combined population > 200 million), but I have no idea what is the situation with spam in these sectors of Telegram.
I think Telegram is also huge in Brazil, but not dominant.
This is a rhetorical question. I just tell you where a lot of people are right now, and where LLM-enabled spam is a huge problem right now. I think these are the conditions that you should be looking for if you want to test Web of Trust mechanisms at scale. But, of course, you might make a normative decision not try help Telegram to grow even bigger because you are not satisfied with its level of openness and decentralisation. Though, I want to note Telegram is more open than any other major messaging platform: its content API is open, anyone can create alternative clients.
It is likely. I don’t want to extend the reign of systems that aren’t deeply upgradeable/accountable/extensible.
And it’s not even as simple as proprietary vs open source, an open source project can be hostile to contributions, or lack processes for facilitating mass transitions in standards of use.