There's a reason telegram mini apps mostly suck, although telegram is a protocol and has hundreds of millions of daily active human users

it's not a credibly neutral protocol, and is controlled by a for profit company with the same name

there's a lesson in there

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i think there are more telling reasons tbh
- no feed for miniapps to leverage for distribution
- no open social graph
- TON is a ghost chain (probably bc devex is terrible)

credible neutrality is important for long term sustainability but there is lots of precedent for thriving mini app ecosystems on centralized platforms e.g. facebook, discord, and maybe twitter/reddit if you consider third party apps in general

you're right, if they gave more distribution, there'd be better apps. 

But many devs don't forget so easily what Facebook/twitter/reddit did. Those precedents were a long time ago and I don't think they'd thrive the same way again, given the platform risks we expect today

people naturally hack on the platforms they use every day despite platform risks so i don't think that totally explains the state of telegram mini apps today. the bot ecosystem on telegram is extremely vast