Comment by nurumaik

> Telegram can’t be trusted to not broadcast your pseudonym to whatever work or other contacts you might have saved on your phone.

Disable contact sync, you don't need it for telegram to work

> Another dimension of privacy is I might want to read a message without knowing the sender read it. You may or may not care about that.

Long press on chat

> Then they’ll have the history and you won’t

You have a button to "nuke" chat for both of you from server. Then they'll have no proof except their words that "I didn't make this up, I honestly exported chat". Honestly, I don't really get this point. Can you elaborate a bit? What is the problem with exporting?

> If you want to sell drugs and remain private, Telegram might be less likely to report you to the government.

And with telegram you can register anonymous "number" on blockchain via tor and don't even care about telegram reporting you to the government. Is this intended to be bad point for telegram?

> threat model suited for the average person is much more unfavorable on Telegram than on Discord

Discord have TOS that allows it to read your private chats and ban you for privately discussing things that are against their code of conduct. This makes any sentence with words "discord" and "private" a complete joke. It's non-private messenger that never even pretended to be private. Maybe somewhat private if your main threat are random internet trolls