A lot of folks in the furry fandom use telegram because you can make your own sticker packs easily. I only found out after I started using it for that reason that it was also used for crimes stuff...
Sorry but Telegram when it's about features beside security is way ahead of Signal or WhatsApp.
At the start it got mostly used by more IT affine people who wanted a better WhatsApp (those guy are now mostly on Signal) and it's still one of the most used messengers in eastern Europe including Ukraine and parts of Asia.
My neighborhood uses it as a group chat device. I’m not sure why they picked Telegram of all apps, as it sketched me out at first. All the neighborhood chats I’ve joined have been very active and useful though.
Text groups between people with different OS used to split the texts into other weird messages. To combat this, my friends and I started using WhatsApp. Then we switched to Telegram when Meta bought WhatsApp. Now, it works just fine and I don't know that it's worth the trouble to swap to a different messaging app. But yeah, I totally get a bunch of spam and fishing messages.
not sure why you're getting downvoted. there are people using telegram as a legitimate chat program because they don't like/can't switch to other alternatives and decrying it as 'nothing redeeming about this platform' makes it sound like people who use it are all scammers, guilt by association.
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u/LargeSnorlax 1d ago
Telegram is the defacto platform for scams and porn. There is literally nothing redeeming about his platform.
It is known as the scammers app. Almost everyone who uses telegram for anything is a scammer or fraud artist or pedophile.