Can someone comment on the Russian angle/ownership of Telegram.
Please, not trying to start a flame war but as a US person I’m trying to gauge if I should consider using it or not.
I don’t care about features, mostly care about security and privacy.
You can find it on Wikipedia as a start and read the founder’s (Pavel Durov’s) posts. The founder is in exile and is a citizen of St. Kitts & Nevis. The Telegram team is currently in Dubai, but has been in other locations before. Telegram was attempted to be banned in Russia a few years ago, but that failed terribly.
As a U.S. person, you have a lot more to worry about the three letter agencies there than about Telegram. And theoretically, you’d also have to worry about Signal being based out of the U.S.
I don’t care about features, mostly care about security and privacy.