Telegram is ran by Russian oligarchs that built the local equivalent of facebook. Telegram was developed in the st. Petersburg offices of the local facebook equivalent.
Telegram developers have deliberately made encrypted conversations impossible to use, despite selling their app on it’s “encryption”. Telegram developers also choose to use pretty questionable crypto, why?
Why are people so inclined to trust Telegram?
https://twitter.com/bershidsky/status/910169626989953024
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/910186197598838784
https://theoutline.com/post/2348/what-isn-t-telegram-saying-...
Oddly enough, your exilee friend Pavel has been a regular sight in St. Petersburg despite supposedly eluding the reach of the Russian authorities https://tjournal.ru/52954-durov-back-in-ussr
He even assaulted someone in 2017 because they were trying to take a photo of him in St Petersburg https://lenta.ru/news/2017/03/20/durov/
>Durov has no desire to aid people who robbed and exiled him.
It seems strange to think that he'd have a choice.
And anyway, Telegram is designed in a manner which allows its operators to easily read ~99% of the conversations between users. The same is not at all true of Signal or Whatsapp. Do you think that's a coincidence?
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I don't understand why chat apps are so hard for large companies.
How to make a good chat app:
Just copy Telegram, but end to end encrypt everything by default.