Difference between Telegram channels and bots

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As I understand it, normal Telegram channels can have members. You can join or leave a channel. Is this the same with bots? Do Telegram bots have members/subscribes in the same was as a channel or group?

Best Answer

No, it's not the same.

I'll explain a bit what a bot is, maybe it will help:
Basically, it's like chatting to another user, which in that case is not real and its usually a program running and doing stuff according to multiple criteria.

So it would be more correct to say a bot has users, and not members.

If you're asking from privacy perspective - the bot can save* the list of users which communicated with it.
*It will probably save the user details if it needs to save details about the conversation, maybe statistics etc.