They should actually take to the streets (again). Not joking. What is this nanny-state BS?

It wasn’t even a good mission. You fight him. You “kill him”. Then there’s a cutscene where he’s revived in a lab… So what was even the point?

I remember getting ads for this months ago on social media. I was like, “Why is the guy from Mafia 3 in this?” Fast forward to now, and my understanding is that the game is simply a series of scripted sequences (“missions”) made in a Fortnite/Roblox-like platform called “Everything”.

It sounds like the game is just that, with FMV’s?

Citizens United says what?

Your comment tldr: “You guys don’t get it; they’re both bad”

and then everyone clapped for you. /s

No disrespect towards you or your response (which is a good response, btw) – but the Bot API being good means absolutely nothing when the core app is garbage. By “garbage”, I mean that it ignores basic best-practices (like not E2EE everything, which they claimed wasn’t possible with device sync – but look at FB Messenger, Signal, Whatsapp, etc all able to do it).

Nobody is allowed to ask me why that matters. Because the answer is $300 Million.

Been saying this for years. Then they introduced Premium to “help fund things” (but they’re also taking $300 MILLION from Elon, and giving them access to user data.

So will basic features stop being paywalled now? Or are people going to have to keep paying to stop random people from messaging them?

I don’t know why people stuck with it. I’ve used it; I get that a lot of the initial success/hype was:

• It’s not owned by Meta
• “Putin hates Durov!”
• “Unlimited” storage (lots of people using it as free cloud storage, which is dumb if you value your files)

But your messages are not E2EE by default (only “Secret Chats”, which aren’t synced across devices)…Telegram (the organization) could always read your messages. I said this so many times and got called everything under the sun.

“Why would they care about my messages though?” ------> Because $300 Million.