Comment by dgellow

Sorry for your mum. FWIW you have the same content on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit.

Telegram has a larger Russian speaking audience because of the founder, who created VK in Russia. But that doesn’t make it Russophile. Ukraine is organizing pretty much all their resistance on Telegram…

The public channels are where the trash content is, I’ve never used them myself, you have to explicitly look for that feature, it’s not like they are shown in the chat interface directly.

> Why not settle on a chat which actually uses e2e encryption by default though?

Because I care more about the quality of user experience, and Telegram has been awesome to use since I first tried it