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elcomet
I wonder how long can Telegram owner Paul Durov keep financing telegram. It seems to be huge now (at least one some countries), ships new features very regularly and must cost a lot to host.

They don't have ads. I guess TON was a way to make telegram financially independant but now that it's over, I wonder how they will keep going.

I hope they can manage to keep telegram running because it's a fine app. Much faster than WhatsApp and others, nicer UX, first class desktop apps, integrations are really easy with bots..

nyc4today
I guess introduce non-essential paid features but I still wonder how that can cover the cost of channels uploading 1.5GB files ad infinitum. https://telegram.org/faq#q-how-are-you-going-to-make-money-o...
toomuchtodo
Signal runs as a non profit foundation. You need paying members to cover costs, but not many (see WhatsApp before Facebook) or an endowment.
elcomet
Yeah, but signal seems much smaller than telegram, and I think it doesn't keep data on the server after it is delivered ?
toomuchtodo
I believe that’s accurate today, but not a huge delta if they choose to support a rich experience like Telegram does in the future.

1 TB stored in Backblaze B2 is $5/month plus egress/CDN charges.

jjeaff
Signal also limits file size and type. You can't even share a video much larger than 100mb.