I’m pretty sure that if everything would have been EE2E on Telegram it would never have reached the size and popularity that it has.

I don’t know what you’re saying here because it makes no sense. No one who uses or shills for Telegram thinks lack of EE2E is a good thing, absolutely no one. They use it despite of lack of EE2E (ignorance or ideologically-flavored ignorance).

NINTENDO ____ THIS __

That is the case. Looks like I was confused. Thanks for the patience.

I agree. If they’re used solely as any other public forum. The problem is it supports the ecosystem of these platforms’ faux private chats. Also if you have to create an account to view a public chat why not make it encrypted all the way? Matrix.org supports encrypted rooms.

It’s also ridiculous that you have to give a phone number to use any “type of public forum”, telegram.

Telegram is no more secure than any other for-profit platform it claims to be an alternative to.