Pavel Durov: The visionary whose alternative to Facebook was snatched away by the Kremlin and counterattacked with an even bigger hit, Telegram (english.elpais.com)

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[-] RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world 82 points 3 months ago

One of the things Durov lost since becoming a visionary is the ability to wear a shirt.

[-] CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago

To be fair, I probably wouldn’t wear one either if I looked like that.

[-] RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

I'm very biased ofc but the shift was very noticeable. One day he took the shirt off and never put it back on.

[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe he has ADHD and misplaced it. Don't judge.

[-] livus@kbin.social 17 points 3 months ago

At first I thought the notorious kbin thumbnail mismatch bug struck again but no.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 38 points 3 months ago

Calling Durov a visionary is, eh, ahem, meow, strange.

One funny thing about VK is, though, that it apparently started similarly to Facebook, possibly wasn't initially a complete clone even.

But the guy is too elitist for his actual level of expertise.

[-] garretble@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I know nothing about this guy, but calling anyone a visionary because they thought about making a Facebook clone is a stretch.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I like how you randomly said meow, where is that from?

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

Just surprised tone with a bit of furry implication

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 18 points 3 months ago

Don't know, it feels like he was (maybe still is) quite good at marketing and found a good team back in the days, but now they are just another big company trying to make a western WeChat and becoming a monopoly.

I like the product, but I am a bit wary of the founder and their strategic course

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 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.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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

Edit: oh, yeah, and Telegram wants business accounts to be able to use Telegram as a landing, pretty much like many do now with Facebook (this practice I find abominable, but that's another point)

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 3 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.

[-] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

And signal

[-] _sideffect@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Lmao visionary... None of these applications were made by visionaries.

Stop putting these social media people on pedestals

[-] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

Telegram is bigger than Twitter btw: https://lemmy.ml/post/13641834

[-] eleitl@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

If you can't censor it easily, it's "controversial".

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Censorversial

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

What even is . . .

goes back out, reads community name again

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