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Finally got rid of telegram, congratulations to me
(sh.itjust.works)
It was a many months transition, and it's finally done
Fun thing, you can actually make a backup of all* your messages, groups, contacts, etc. So before leaving you can have all of your data in case you need that one contact or something
The final red flag was as that allegedly Russian authorities were messing with people's deleted messages. Not for the first time there are news that they could read, modify, delete, see location, and etc. Screw it, this is unsafe, I'm out.
Also, these days telegram is really at the state of a pile of garbage, bloated, buggy, and shady messenger.
start a meme group. People may not want to install a chat app to talk to you, but they don't want to miss out on juicy memes.
this strategy worked for a few of my friends at least.