[adontz]

I have no doubt about Durov's morals. 12 years ago he was throwing paper airplanes folded from bills to make fun of "little people". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTRem0YRjqY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJFZMyFzlR8

Telegram is used by drug dealers in my country too. All types of illegal content. Honestly Telegram is new darknet, but not even that dark. Streets are full of QR codes linking to Telegram channels,

OTOH Telegram is a really good technology. Very lightweight client. Whatsapp sucks compared to Telegram. Very hard to block protocol, Russian authorities basically failed to block Telegram. Very easy to write bots. Telegram bots are very powerful, way beyond simple chat replies. One can build UI with buttons and dropdowns inside Telegram.

Also, in not so free countries Telegram is the Internet basically.

[krick]

I wish that would be true. I loved internet 15+ years ago, before governments and big corporations and all these fuckers got their dirty hands all over the internet.