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@silver_huskey The issues with Telegram are:

• owned & run by neonazis
• years old unpatched vulnerabilities in app
• refusal to fix unsafe & ineffective cryptography, which is off by default anyway & very hidden
• advertises their app as super ultra mega secure, but it has more holes than a fishnet
• shares user data with police too freely, including for things like people being gay in countries where it's illegal to be gay
• dumped 26GiB. of my nudes, tax documents, & other files into a groupchat completely on its own for no fucking reason before I was able to turn on airplane mode, kill the app's processes, & get a group moderator to delete everything
• anti LGBT
• requires phone number
• nazi dogwhistles in their blog posts
• premium lets you ignore other users' privacy settings
• crashes if someone sends a GIF

The only issue Telegram doesn't have yet is requiring you scan your face & government ID for them. Matrix is almost worth dealing with, assuming it's somehow your only other option.