If you haven’t left Telegram behind yet, time to do so.

The CEO of the company, Pavel Durov, posted the following today (archive link with full message):

This summer, Telegram users will gain access to the best AI technology on the market. Elon Musk and I have agreed to a 1-year partnership to bring xAI’s chatbot Grok to our billion+ users and integrate it across all Telegram apps

This time, it’s not a hoax, this is really happening.

At this point, Telegram is on a race to the bottom. Use Signal instead, it doesn’t suck like Telegram.

Edit: if you want to come to the comments to:

  1. Complain that Signal isn’t your use case
  2. Complain about how “bad” Signal is
  3. Try to chip in with suggestions of random messengers
  4. Look for some kind of debate on messengers

Think really hard about it and skip it, it’ll make everybody’s day (including yours) better.