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Why would you say so? Joining the Telegram channels is free, and creating an email alert at https://findmegigs.com/?remote=true#basic-plan is free as well

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I hate to pile on, but you're putting up a lot of barriers that are going to discourage casual viewers. I don't want to sign up for some app I won't use for anything else. I don't want to give out my email. I definitely don't want to pay for anything. Maybe I'm not your target market, but this is going to be a hard pass for many people.

I know people here like to hate Telegram but it is extremely common in certain areas and groups.

Why not WhatsApp or Signal then?

None of them has a working public API as far as I know.

The WhatsApp API is not as open as Telegram's, you have to apply and pay and so on AFAIK. IDK about signal but feels even more nichey than Telegram. I want to focus on doing one channel well than then expand to others

I think we agree and my wording was a but clumsy. Sorry for that.

why are you so dead set on thinking having to sign up for a platform is something that people will do specifically for your service?

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