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kzahelyesterday at 12:02 PM1 replyview on HN

You wouldn't typically give it access to your own telegram account. You use the telegram bot API to make a bot and the claw gateway only listens to messages from your own account


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embedding-shapeyesterday at 12:06 PM

That's a very different approach, and a bot user is very different from a regular Telegram account, it won't be nearly as "useful", at least in the way I thought openclaw was supposed to work.

For example, a bot account cannot initiate conversations, so everyone would need to first message the bot, doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of giving openclaw access to it then? I thought they were supposed to be your assistant and do outbound stuff too, not just react to incoming events?

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