Crazy how hard telegram ships. With a single update they turned telegram into an OS, laid the foundation for public social feeds, and killed onlyfans

Crazy how hard telegram ships. With a single update they turned telegram into an OS, laid the foundation for public social feeds, and killed onlyfans

https://telegram.org/blog/mini-app-bar-paid-media-and-more

Insane, it's the only place where I see such astronomical numbers. 

The more time passes, the more I wonder if, like with information, we are confined to our little world and victims of propaganda. 

I remember as a child in the 90s, we still called all these countries achieving these feats today "third world."

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these huge user counts are inflated by bots tho pretty heavily, but it's still insanely impressive what have Telegram's mini-apps have achieved in such a small timeframe (especially Hamster Kombat, which had like $5k marketing budget in the beginning)

also these apps help onboard people to crypto, and the influx of newbie users is noticeable