Telegram App : What It is and How To Use It as a user and content creator

VIDEO INDEX:
00:00 - Intro
00:26 - History of Telegram
02:19 - Russia Ban & Reinstatement
03:09 - Ownership & Investors
04:26 - Privacy & Security
06:00 - Government Interventions
08:23 - Terms of Service
08:46 - How to Use Telegram
09:18 - One to One Chats
10:17 - Groups
13:32 - Channels
16:05 - Creating Groups and channels
16:19 - Telegram for Content Creators
18:09 - Chat Folders & Settings to Adjust
19:13 - Multiple Accounts
19:38 - Revenue Opportunites?
20:49 - Telegram Conclusion
21:42 - Supporter Thank Yous
22:03 - Helping The Channel
22:29 - My Other Channels
23:22 - Conclusion

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[hectormanuel]

Lon your explanations are always accurate and highly detailed.

[neolynxer]

Banning telegram is very hard. Russian govt did not succeed at that. They broke a lot of services during their ban tho.

[Grantly]

Telegram is so much better than WhatsApp!

[debragregory]

How do you find someone not in your contacts but you want to follow them?

[dwalinfundinson]

I've had Telegram since it began almost a decade ago. It is indispensable to my life. All my friends and family also have it.

[exodous]

I remember when telegram was new and people were using it for piracy. You could find movie groups and download movies but the pirates got greedy and stopped posting movies on their free groups and just posted trailers and said the full movies were on their paid group. That aspect of Telegram didn't last long.

[johnandmegh]

This was super helpful in understanding what all had happened with Telegram in the past and the current state of the platform!

Have you already done one of these for Discord? I liked to think I was pretty tech savvy but I’m having a heck of a time understanding exactly what Discord is, how it works, what to use it for - honestly the interface is a bit intimidating I think.

If you haven’t, that might be a helpful one for novices to the Discord platform? (If you have, the YouTube algorithm didn’t want to show me search results for it! 😛 )

[tracyackley-wekf]

I don’t see how to follow a channel. You just explained the way the channel works and how to make one but not how to find a channel from someone else . Do I look them up under contacts?

[jeffsisler]

If someone gets on telegram do they have to use debit card like it shows at bottom or not or is it free without debit card

[retroman--]

I prefer Signal. The only information they have is the last time you logged on, and when you created an account.

[KregSteppe]

9:57 - I saw the SD card and thought for a sec, "That is a strange placement for an icon" .. Then you moved it. 🤣

[BackForwardPunch]

I think it’s charming that you try out all of the new apps and services- I always try and wait for some of the kinks to be worked out before I hop in. Happy to get the scoop from you!

[FintanMoloney]

Thanks Lon for covering this - always informative and well explained. My best friend in Ukraine uses Telegram and she asked me to use it because we believed it was encrypted. It was important to her that we talk securely and privately. Its very interesting what you covered here.

[Oblithian]

This somehow sounds like a '90s TV spot.

[DanVanMalsen]

I'm a big fan of Telegram's features and am intrigued by all the concern about privacy. Telegram offers personal conversations and also these massive groups and channels with the ability for the user to use any device and access the complete history of all conversations. They do this because these are features people want. Unfortunately, it just is not possible to secure it like a "secret chat." If you want totally private group conversations you will need to find another platform and accept their limited features.

[CF]

I joined Telegram just to follow and help out. Looks like the numbers are up on that service for subs!

[ALTRON]

Ive been using telegram since it started. Best messaging platform out there. nuff said 🙂

[cingleinva]

He is also a member of the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM!!!!

[rcald-gzjd]

*Lon* - MoCA question: Watching your goCoax MoCA videos, I noticed that you routinely reference the BAMF brand splitters. However I see that the 3-way variants are no longer available on amazon, and the 2-way models are steadily going up in price. In your opinion, would I be just as well served with the Cable Matters splitters since they are marked as "MoCA" and state a frequency of 5-2450 MHz? Also, what if another brand of splitter has a similar frequency but doesn't state that it's MoCA certified? Thank you in advance for your time.

[xjonx]

What would be interesting is if you posted 4 similar videos. One with both like and dislike. One with both turned off. One with only like and one with only dislike.