It’s severely unrealistic to completely move off telegram cold turkey for many. Including myself. So here’s what I got: - Stop paying for premium. Cancel it right now - Avoid/ Leave any groups or chats that use Grok - Keep an eye on app updates for any settings to disable. Maybe even disable updates - ThreadSky

oven.ott.fish • 4 days ago

It’s severely unrealistic to completely move off telegram cold turkey for many. Including myself. So here’s what I got:
- Stop paying for premium. Cancel it right now
- Avoid/ Leave any groups or chats that use Grok
- Keep an eye on app updates for any settings to disable. Maybe even disable updates

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drevin.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah I made a Signal a few months ago when I learned about the grok bot...integration is so much worse ugh. It is really unfortunate that there isn't a good alternative to telegram. :/

oven.ott.fish•4 days ago

I’m not gonna pretend here. I’m extremely tired of all of our spaces we once used getting razed by this slop. But with Telegram the writing was on the wall and I can’t say this wasn’t expected eventually but it’s still some absolutely valid grief.

Take it slow. We will get through this.

oven.ott.fish•4 days ago

I’d definitely setup a signal account. Even if the community finds a messenger alternative in time this is still a good platform to have an account given how bad things have been getting globally in regards to political unrest.

Here’s a guide to get started:

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-beginners/

funallowed.bsky.social•4 days ago

i wish there was an alternative for groups and not just 1:1

i'm not even mad for the ''ai'' implementation itself, but it's fucking grok =_=

the worst they could have chosen

hearthfox.bsky.social•4 days ago

Basically this.

vegatkg.bsky.social•4 days ago

*big exhausted artist sigh*

I am so tired of moving, but I fucking hate genAi and reeeaaalllyyy fucking hate muskrat loser man.

Guess it's time to eventually move stuff off telegram.

oven.ott.fish•4 days ago

Maybe we just all go back to RSS feeds for real

vegatkg.bsky.social•4 days ago

I am seriously contemplating fully utilizing my website for everything, it sucks because it's a lonely island in a vast sea but at least I have the most control over its function (if that makes sense).

The main concern is getting the same visibility/foot traffic as social media sights bring. 😔

stargonewrong.gay•3 days ago

if you want to pave over your old accounts with cheaply produced slop to gunk up the ai training, i have a solution that uses dictionary slop

it's not AI, it just randomizes dictionary words in random length for training AI on degenerative gibberish

vegatkg.bsky.social•3 days ago

Interesting, does this only work for text or can it also gunk up images?

stargonewrong.gay•3 days ago

text, but with them trying to ocr everything i bet we could invent an overlay that tricks both

iamdohnut.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean. y'got bluesky, don'tcha? you should be sorta a-okay with just that! :D
although, I don't really know how it all works, but I wish you the best either way.

yetyetinu.bsky.social•4 days ago

And it's really early so I'd say wait to confirm more info on how it works

And throw tons of angry feedback to telegram and threats to leave they may have moderation options (if we're lucky)

g0ldenfool.bsky.social•4 days ago

This extremely sucks because I don't get any commissions for full pieces anymore, I really only get commissions for telegram stickers. People just use AI instead for full pieces. It almost feels like there's no point in attempting to be an artist as a career anymore. 🙃

forgi.cc•4 days ago

Yeah, I’m gonna have to do a big purge to get back under free limits x.x

forgi.cc•4 days ago

Been on telegram for almost 10 years… 🙃

oven.ott.fish•4 days ago

Same 😫

iamdohnut.bsky.social•2 days ago

hey so I only use telegram to talk to a single friend. does that work out okay still? or no .w.

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