I use its bots to monitor my NAS and all the services running on it.
You monitored my Bitcoin node (before it died 🤪) the same way, completely for free.
You can also integrate your own apps with Telegram and use it as your program’s GUI.
I have a bot there that my friend has written and we use it to organize our memes and videos and call them with keywords in any chat. 😂 It’s completely self-hosted and private. 😎
Most of Telegram’s features are free. I still bought Premium, not because I needed it, but because I appreciate the work they’re doing. It was my way of saying thank you.
quotingTelegram just added a rich text editor to their app
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Telegram is becoming the "everything" app that Elon Musk envisioned.
Still I think #nostr has an advantage over both. Open protocol and censorship resistance gives Nostr it's edge