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The main reason many sub-communities are stuck on Telegram (and Discord) are the public group chat/broadcast channel related features. Signal still has a 1000 member group size limit, which is more than enough for a "group DM" but mostly useless for groups with publicly posted invite links. Those same groups would also much rather have functional scrollback/search on join instead of encryption.
And that's fine and good, if you want that, I've no problem with people getting their needs met.
I just wish they wouldn't call it secure or private or think there will be no consequences for using it, there absolutely could be because there is no encryption in groups and bad encryption in one-to-one contexts.
Apart from the lack of moderation and refusal to comply with police etc from a distance, there isn't much keeping those who use it safe from arrest, discrimination etc.