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Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 44 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The shitty forced "stories" did me question seriously this once wonderful app. If I'd want to look at crappy TikTok-like shorts from other people, I'd be on TikTok.

[–] weedazz@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I had the same worry when it happened to signal

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Signal has stories as well?

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Inexplicably, yes. It does

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 7 points 11 months ago

Hmm, should we add the ability to register from desktop easily? Nah, let's just add stories)

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Yes, but the can be disabled, which I do automatically.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah but you can trivially turn them off.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Once I saw the stories I was like ok wtf. How do I turn this off?

Maybe revanced manager can do it.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm using Nekogram, that at least allows to automatically hide (archive) them.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Forkgram

https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/org.forkgram.messenger/

Seems to be doing the trick for me but the icon sucks and I had to rename it in the android UI cause it uses its package name for its display name lol. How's nekogram compare?

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, the package/display name issue has been a bug for a while in Forkgram. Nekogram just works for me, nothing special apart from some custom options, such as hide stories.