Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat

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The shitty forced "stories" did me question seriously this once wonderful app. If I'd want to look at crappy TikTok-like shorts from other people, I'd be on TikTok.

I had the same worry when it happened to signal

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Once I saw the stories I was like ok wtf. How do I turn this off?

Maybe revanced manager can do it.

I'm using Nekogram, that at least allows to automatically hide (archive) them.

Forkgram

https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/org.forkgram.messenger/

Seems to be doing the trick for me but the icon sucks and I had to rename it in the android UI cause it uses its package name for its display name lol. How's nekogram compare?

Yeah, the package/display name issue has been a bug for a while in Forkgram. Nekogram just works for me, nothing special apart from some custom options, such as hide stories.

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