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Comment by pphysch | Hacker News Reader

Telegram has by far the best UX for me out of these "social media", largely because it is not based on an ad-driven algorithmic feed.

I wish X had a proper UI like Telegram. The "Following" feed is pathetic. The problem is, of course, that I would spend 90% less time on X if there was such a feature. Really drives home that You Are The Product.

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Telegram is one of the best software out there. Not just the ux but also the speed and the technical brilliance is superior to anything from Google Twitter Facebook etc.

The only issue is how to find more channels or even the best channels for a particular interest or topic. But yeah TG is by far superior in many ways.

Serious question: how do you do discovery of good channels? Downloaded TG over a year ago because I read that a lot of interesting on the ground Ukraine reporting was happening there.

But after I downloaded, I quickly realized the discovery experience was non existent. I was googling for good TG channels, which is crazy in my opinion!

Some of the channels I follow are moderately active and they do lots of re-posting, which links to the related channel. It's not the best discovery feature, but it does work for me.

Not to mention integrating with its API is a dream

I got HN and Slashdot feeds on there it's so nice. There's even a golang bot you can run that you give an RSS feed so you can read the headlines in telegram.

The problem is in my country if you go for a gun licence the cops give you the side eye if you're on telegram. It may affect your ability to get (re)licenced.

How do you get HN feed on Telegram?

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