You need to mark sarcasm with /s.

If this is not a joke: the US has the worst privacy protection laws on this planet. Laws in China are almost better. And ironically the worst laws for freedom aswell. There is a reason why we have the GDPR laws in the EU that prohibits any user data transfer to US servers.

But surely somebody is proposing this. And it's not an entity. It's a person.

What is with these headlines these days.... "Fueling a slowdown".

Am I the only one that hates third-party clients for Desktop? They all have terrible UI and UX. Firefox + UBlock + Youtube is the way to go. For the phone it's NewPipe or Grayjay.

Thanks for your response. I just ended up removing the logo and backdrop image alltogether by adding this to the custom css:

.detailLogo, .backdropImage  {
    display: none;
}

I will definitely look at beets.io. Sounds like a useful tool to organize my library mess :)

It's not even encrypted except for encryption at rest. What are you talking about?

Telegram was never safe because it's not encrypted. Use something encrypted and open-source, so you don't need to rely on their promises and service.

Signal is the most popular alternative. Others are Threema, Matrix, Session.

Telegram is not private at all. Nothing is encrypted except Secret Chat.

What do you mean? Hypersonic are a multitude faster than 1200 km/h.

Are you trying to lecture me on what I'm doing? I know very well myself what I'm doing. I'm here for the 5 communities there are and on Reddit for the rest.

How do you know I'm not on Reddit for 90% of the time?