• @RozhkiNozhki
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    838 months ago

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

    • @CatsGoMOW
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      548 months ago

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

      • @RozhkiNozhki
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        238 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.

    • livus
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      178 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    398 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
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      58 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
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      48 months ago

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

  • lad
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    188 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
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      38 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.

      • lad
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        8 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
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          08 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.

  • @_sideffect
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    118 months ago

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

    Stop putting these social media people on pedestals

  • Optional
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    78 months ago

    What even is . . .

    goes back out, reads community name again