I’m not in part of the world where telegram is more commonplace but from an outside prospective I’ve always kind of held the opinion it’s more for fringe groups and users who have reasons to hide their conversations. Thinking back that may be largely due to the lack of moderation and it being mentioned in the same sentence as some illegal activities. I can’t say whether any of this is true but my uninformed opinion is built upon its association with other unsavory parts of the internet, real or not.

Edit a week later: case in point https://www.propublica.org/article/telegram-pavel-durov-arrest-domestic-terrorism-extremism

Sounds like they have a nazi bar problem, and their actions welcome it. No thanks.

Probably because there is tons of known criminal activity, most chats are not encrypted, the CEO was just arrested, etc.

OP is probably interested in seeing the chaos of the platform without necessarily being part of it. I imagine that’s somehow seeing the illicit activity going on.

OP’s programming mandates it.

Edit: the next step is to accuse anyone who disagrees with that characterization of being a “Russian” or “Chinese” bot or even a “tankie” if I say anything that wouldn’t belong in Bob Dole’s campaign platform from 40 years ago. It’s so pervasive among lemmy.world users that “programming” is the only word I know of that captures how brainwashed into fighting this tribalist “culture war” they actually are.