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.

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FID 1,600,000,001

This doesn't negate your overall point, but most of the high-value groups I'm in use Signal FWIW.

It happened to achieve escape velocity before signal got usernames

Also I don’t understand why telegram isn’t encrypted by default for 1:1s

Product experience on XMTP and Signal aren’t comparable to Telegram unfortunately 

Hopefully they improve to get to feature parity soon

But the others don’t have as good of an assortment of Pepe sticker packs

Wallet communication with something like XMTP seems both obvious and promising, but it needs to expand beyond high-gas chains like Eth and .eth names to have a chance among normies