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      Along with the premium version, they have a crypto currency (TON) that can be used to buy things on the platform from other users, and I think you can also buy things with real money and they keep a small commission. Also there are some small ads in very large channels (not groups, channels only) and ways to gift “stars” to other people, like Patreon or sth

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      There is some premium version iirc. Bigger files can be sent, custom emojis, that sort of things

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      Telegram always seemed a bit sus to me. I have hard time trusting that they don’t sell all that non-encrypted data somewhere.