The weird thing about Telegram is that for all of Pavel's talk of privacy, it's not end-to-end encrypted like WhatsApp and Signal. 

If The Blob is giving him grief for not going along with warrants, he could just encrypt, only offer traffic data like FB/Apple, and that's that.

Measuring things at @spindl.

My FID is lower than all but 52 of you.

Also, one of the great ironies of 'crypto' is that it settled on the least cryptographically secure and least decentralized messaging app as its main social/messaging platform.

And XMTP and Signal are just sitting right there.

I understand now that telegram isn’t encrypted but didn’t we all think it was for years? When did it come out it wasn’t or was that just something I was confused about

It's mind-blowing how many people believe it's e2ee. If that was the case why would there be secret and non secret chats 😅