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Open Sift inside Telegram
Manage your chats, moderation and scheduled posts.
Open the app from Sift’s Telegram bot to sign in.
Create your workspace
Give your workspace a name, then connect your groups and channels.
Your community
Manage your connected chats and recent activity.
Announcement delivery
Chats
Connect the groups and channels you own to this workspace.
Connect a chat
Choose a group or channel. Telegram will guide you through giving Sift administrator access.
You must own both the Telegram chat and this workspace.
Choose in TelegramYour chats
Features
Set workspace defaults or change settings for one chat. Locked settings cannot be changed here.
Protection
Choose which messages to check and what happens when a rule matches.
Preview and history
Compare this form with the saved policy using sample messages. No actions are taken.
Apply to selected chats
Replace the selected chats’ policies with the saved policy from this scope.
Test a sample message
Test the current rules, including unsaved changes, without taking action. Protection is treated as on for this test.
Coverage and action status
Join protection
New members verify before posting. Their welcome prompt disappears when they pass. On by default for supergroups; existing members are unaffected. Simple challenges add friction but do not stop every bot.
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Recent newcomers
Approval verifies a member and lifts the hold if Sift still owns it. Other restrictions remain. Check Telegram if the outcome is uncertain.
Automod outcomes
Cases
Review cases or take action in the selected chat.
New moderation action
Cases
Appeals
Review inbox
Review flagged messages, open cases and member appeals.
Claims are shared with your team. Showing up to 200 items; filter to find older work.
Incidents
Apply temporary protection to selected chats. When it ends, previous settings are restored unless someone changed them. Moderation actions already taken remain in effect.
Start an incident
Incident history
Moderation quality
Review sample-message tests and moderator feedback.
Test results
These sample-message tests check for regressions. They do not measure accuracy on live chats.
Protection health
Human feedback
Notes and rules
Save reusable notes for this workspace or a chat. Name a note “rules” to show it with /rules.
Names use lowercase letters, numbers, underscores or hyphens. Content is plain text.
Workspace and chat notes
Announcements
Write or schedule a post for selected chats. Delivery status is tracked for each destination.
Recent jobs
Team
Owners can add members and choose what they can manage.
Add a member
Members and roles
Activity
Settings changes and administrative actions in this workspace.
Platform operations
Manage platform features and check worker and queue health.
Operator diagnostics
Feature availability
Your cases and appeals
Your moderation history and appeal decisions.
Your cases
Your appeals
Submit an appeal
Enter the case reference and explain what you’d like reviewed.