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Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat
(techcrunch.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I use it with many friends and it is super buggy. Calls work only ok on browser version of Element, bugs in encryption are common where you cannot read a message, Synapse server is bloating the database and not clean after itself, etc.
It's getting better month by month, but still can't recommend for your friends that are not technical people into open source. Better wait to not discourage them now.