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.

Director, @baseAds. Founder 
@spindl (acq. @coinbase). Wrote bestseller 'Chaos Monkeys'. 

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.

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

Hopefully they improve to get to feature parity soon

Stay Curious // iixii // Lazer Technologies // Prev: CoinDesk, Roc Nation // based

this is what's bugging me though. people in crypto are used to subpar ux in exchange for revolutionary tech.

it almost looks like people are not in it for the principle, but for something else *shocked face*

corollary: (of course it depends on the type of projects, but as a rule of thumb) i have a hard time trusting crypto projects that run their comms on telegram

fortune cookie casts, memes, parenting, building frames, /framedl, /framedl-pro & /calmer

there goes the idealism everyone tries to hide behind

People in crypto are used to subpar ux in exchange for a financial incentive***